{"id":19076,"date":"2025-07-27T05:23:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T09:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/acquitted-ex-canadian-hockey-players-sexual-assault-case\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T05:23:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T09:23:49","slug":"acquitted-ex-canadian-hockey-players-sexual-assault-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nhl\/acquitted-ex-canadian-hockey-players-sexual-assault-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Acquitted: Ex-Canadian hockey players, sexual assault case"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ex-hockey players acquitted of sexual assault accusations<\/h2>\n\nA judge in Ontario, Canada, acquitted five former members of the junior hockey team on charges of sexual assault. Judge Maria Carroccia determined that the plaintiff’s accusations lacked the credibility necessary to justify the charges.\n\nMichael McLeod, Carter Hart, Alex Formenton, Dillon Dube, and Callan Foote, who pleaded not guilty, faced charges related to an incident that occurred in a hotel room in London, Ontario, on June 19, 2018.\n\nThe case, which included speculation, parliamentary hearings, and police investigations, culminated in a trial with a verdict that fell to Judge Carroccia.\n\nThe judge explained her decision, highlighting the “tendency to blame others” for the inconsistencies in the plaintiff’s statements.\n\nThe judge also pointed out that the woman tried to prove her state of intoxication, but this was not corroborated by surveillance videos and testimonies.\n\n\n
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Alex Formenton, uno de los jugadores de hockey, llegando a la corte en Londres, Ontario.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nMcLeod was also acquitted of an additional charge. The players, aged between 25 and 27, were in London for an event commemorating their championship victory.\n\nThe players’ lawyers celebrated the outcome, while the plaintiff’s lawyer expressed her disappointment.\n\nThe plaintiff felt devastated, as “she had never before experienced not being believed.”\n\nThe NHL indicated that the players, who are not on any league list nor have active contracts, remain ineligible to play while the judge’s findings are reviewed. The NHL Players’ Association considers the league’s decision to be “inconsistent”.\n\nProsecutor Meaghan Cunningham thanked the plaintiff for appearing and announced that her team will review the judge’s decision during the 30-day appeal period.\n\nThe woman testified that she felt scared and vulnerable in her hotel room. The defense suggested that she actively participated in the sexual activity.\n\nTwo short videos taken by McLeod were presented, in one of which the woman says it was “consensual”, although she later clarified that it was not her true opinion.\n\nProtesters gathered in front of the courthouse in support of the plaintiff, whose identity was not revealed.\n\nThe accusations were made public years after the incident. The police closed the initial investigation without filing charges in 2019, but the plaintiff sued Hockey Canada in 2022. The organization settled the lawsuit, and the police reopened the investigation.\n\nPlayers were accused in early 2024. At that time, some were playing in the NHL and subsequently took an indefinite leave of absence.\n\nThe NHL began its own investigation in 2022.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ex-hockey players acquitted of sexual assault accusations A judge in Ontario, Canada, acquitted five former members of the junior hockey team on charges of sexual assault. Judge Maria Carroccia determined that the plaintiff’s accusations lacked the credibility necessary to justify the charges. Michael McLeod, Carter Hart, Alex Formenton, Dillon Dube, and Callan Foote, who pleaded […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[6366,662,454,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-19076","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-acquittal","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sexual-assault"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}