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Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden
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So not only are they blaming the victim but they also refused to alert authorities when a coach suggested they do so.
Jesus Christ, the hawks really are the biggest pieces of #### around.
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In the John Doe 1 case, the team’s attorneys argue that the former player didn’t exhaust the legal remedies available through the Illinois Human Rights Act or Illinois Worker’s Compensation Act as mandated by state law and that the suit wasn’t filed before the statute of limitations ran out.
In the John Doe 2 case, the team’s attorneys argue the Hawks didn’t legally “owe a duty” to warn potential future employers of Aldrich, such as Houghton High School or Miami University in Ohio, where he was accused of assaulting “a non-student adult” and a student in separate off-campus incidents in 2012, the university confirmed through public records requests. Neither person pursued charges.
The Houghton High School player was assaulted by Aldrich the next year.
Loggans contends that had the team acted on the initial complaints by two Hawks players — that Aldrich allegedly assaulted them during an overnight stay at his apartment in May 2010 — then the events at Miami and Houghton might not have occurred, and thus the Hawks should be held financially liable.
“One of their top management coaches thought they should call the police and the organization refused to do that,” Loggans told the Tribune. “Had they done that, two things would’ve happened: First of all, John Doe 1 wouldn’t have been harassed on the ice in the future, as he was — he was bullied as a result of the common knowledge about what happened with Aldrich.
“And No. 2, John Doe 2 would never have been molested. Had there been a police investigation like Paul Vincent wanted, then all of these downstream places would’ve been on notice about what happened. … So their failure to call for a police investigation set the snowball rolling down the hill that caused all the rest of this to occur.”
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