[Cecil Terwilliger]

The victim doesn’t want to proceed. The public’s desire for justice won’t do anyone any good. If names are named, it’s going to stain those players forever, regardless of whether they are guilty or not and, worse yet, the victim will be forced to relive the trauma all over again when she’s said she doesn’t want to. You can’t name names without an investigation to try and uncover the truth.

This may seem like an unfortunate side effect of the powerful covering up an assault but I don’t see how any resolution is satisfactory to anyone at this point.

And just to be clear these are unproven allegations. Lots of people settle even when innocent to avoid the bad press and avoid messy trials, so we can’t even point to the settlement as a sign of guilt.

But there are obviously some disturbing trends here. If what I’ve read is true about how the money works, Hockey Canada using tax dollars and your minor hockey fees to payoff rape victims is ####ed it. Not to mention the obvious one, which is yet another troubling incident involving major junior hockey in this country and sports/sexual assault in general.

It’s just sad all around to be honest.