US EditionDefence continues cross-examining complainant at hockey players’ sex assault trial
- On May 8 and 9, 2025, E.M. provided testimony in London, Ontario, during the cross-examination portion of a sexual-assault trial involving five men who previously competed for Canada’s world junior hockey team.
- The case stems from a 2018 alleged group sexual assault at a hotel following a Hockey Canada gala, with defence questioning E.M.’s credibility and recollections amid claims of inconsistencies.
- Defence lawyer Megan Savard argued that E.M.’s behavior suggested consent and described her as acting in ways that might have led players to believe she was willing, while E.M. maintained she did not consent.
- E.M. explained that due to the trauma she experienced, she was unable to remember all the specifics shortly after the incident and emphasized that any inaccuracies in her statement were unintentional.
- The trial continues amid an ongoing civil lawsuit settled in 2022 for an undisclosed amount, and criminal charges filed in early 2024 against the accused, all of whom have pleaded not guilty.
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“I didn’t fight back, I wanted it to be over,” says actress Karolína Lea Nováková at Prague’s Archa+ theatre. The sentence is repeated in the documentary The Pack. It tells a story from Pamplona, Spain, in which a young woman became the target of sexual violence. But five men claimed: she wanted to sleep with us, all of us at once. The performance is a reconstruction of the event as it unfolded in the courtroom.
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Complainant in hockey players' trial pushes back during tense cross-examination
A woman pushed back Friday after a defence lawyer suggested she felt embarrassed and ashamed for the choices she made the night she alleges she was sexually assaulted by five former members of Canada's world junior hockey team.
·Flin Flon, Canada
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