Police have the names of 2 hockey players in 2003 alleged sexual assault

CBC has just reported that the Halifax police now have the names of at least two members of the 2003 World Junior hockey team who may have appeared in a video of an alleged group sexual assault nearly two decades ago.

A person who was shown a video of the alleged incident after it occurred in 2003 said reported the identities of two players he recognized in the video in a recent interview with police. The source informed he told Halifax police he recognized the 2003 World Junior player holding the camcorder at the beginning of the video because he held the camera up to his face.

“[The video] made me sick to my stomach,” the source told CBC News. “I knew what I was watching was wrong.

“I recognized two of the players and both of them went on to have NHL careers.”

Earlier this summer, a woman stepped forward to say that she was “gang raped” by members of the 2003 Canadian World Juniors team. From Rick Westhead’s report, we found out the allegations claiming that more than a half-dozen players on the 2003 World Junior team were recorded during the tournament having sex with a woman who was naked and non-responsive.

More horrific details emerged with this breaking news: 

As one of those players penetrated the woman, the others stood around the woman masturbating and appeared to be waiting for their turn, the source said.

"Her head was just turned to the side and she wasn't active," the source said.

This came while Hockey Canada was already dealing with an investigation regarding the 2018 sexual assault allegations in an incident that featured eight members of the country’s 2018 world junior team, following a gala in London, Ontario.

In the wake of this scandal several members of the 2003 roster have stepped forward to deny their involvement of the allegations. Most have said that they weren’t even aware of the allegations until they became public last month. Former NHLers PA Parenteau, Carlo Colaiacovo, Dan Paille and Jordin Tootoo have all cleared their names but Minnesota Wild netminder Marc Andre Fleury declined to comment on the allegations when confronted by Quebec’s La Presse newspaper earlier this month.