A different young woman, only two years older, arrived at Jack’s with a group of friends at approximately 11 p.m, according to a statement of claim filed in April 2022 in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.
Shortly after arriving at the bar, she met a member of the World Juniors team who introduced her to a player identified in the lawsuit as John Doe 1. John Doe 1 and some of his teammates bought the plaintiff a number of alcoholic beverages.
According to the statement of claim, the plaintiff got separated from her friends and became increasingly intoxicated throughout the night, exhibiting telltale signs — glassy eyes, slurred speech, stumbling and loss of balance.
Sometime in the early morning, the woman left the bar with John Doe 1. Cabs wait outside the bar regularly, especially on the busiest nights, and it would’ve been about a five-minute ride back to the hotel. If they had walked, they might have traveled south down Richmond and then east onto a cobblestoned stretch of Dundas, a roughly 20-minute walk. It is likely they would’ve had to sidestep other young bar patrons spilling out into the street in the early hours after last call.
Entering the hotel, they would have passed at least one security camera affixed high on the northeast corner of the roof that covers arriving guests. When they entered the lobby, it was about a 17-step walk to the elevator bank. Another security camera on the ceiling just before the elevators would likely have captured their entrance.
As the glassed elevator climbed the tower, the woman could have viewed London. In the distance was Budweiser Gardens arena, situated right next to the stark Ontario courthouse, where the events to come would be detailed in a statement of claim four years later.
Security footage would not have captured the two entering a hotel room — multiple employees told The Athletic security cameras are not present on each floor — but a walk down the hallway would’ve been lit by wall sconces and guided by an art-deco floor pattern in the carpet.
According to the young woman’s statement of claim, at some point in the early-morning hours, she and John Doe 1 “engaged in sex acts” in his hotel room. Then, John Doe 1 invited his teammates to the room without her knowledge or consent.
According to the young woman’s statement of claim, they made her touch herself and perform oral sex on them. They straddled her and placed their genitals in her face. They slapped her buttocks, spit on her, ejaculated onto her, and engaged in vaginal intercourse while she was incapable of consent.
At one point, she started crying and tried to leave the room, she said. She was then “directed, manipulated and intimidated into remaining,” according to her statement of claim.
Throughout the alleged assaults, the young woman said she feared imminent physical harm. Some players brought their golf clubs into the room. The sheer number of them and the presence of the clubs made her feel intimidated and threatened. As a result, she said she acquiesced to the sexual acts.
“Any reasonable person … would have concluded the Plaintiff was not freely consenting in those circumstances and would have ceased the confinement of the plaintiff and the sexual behaviors toward her,” the claim states.
After it was over, the players told her to shower.
According to reports, two videos were made — the first was six seconds long and filmed at 3:30 a.m. and the second was 12 seconds and was filmed at 4:30 a.m. In the videos, the woman, following hours of drinking and what she says were several forced sexual acts, states that all that happened in the room was consensual.
The Athletic reached out to the young woman’s lawyer, Robert Talach, on multiple occasions but he declined comment and repeatedly stressed that his client does not wish to speak publicly. It is not clear from the statement of claim what the woman did next, how she got home, but at some point that morning, likely around the time the sun was coming up, she finally exited the hotel.
Shortly after arriving at the bar, she met a member of the World Juniors team who introduced her to a player identified in the lawsuit as John Doe 1. John Doe 1 and some of his teammates bought the plaintiff a number of alcoholic beverages.
According to the statement of claim, the plaintiff got separated from her friends and became increasingly intoxicated throughout the night, exhibiting telltale signs — glassy eyes, slurred speech, stumbling and loss of balance.
Sometime in the early morning, the woman left the bar with John Doe 1. Cabs wait outside the bar regularly, especially on the busiest nights, and it would’ve been about a five-minute ride back to the hotel. If they had walked, they might have traveled south down Richmond and then east onto a cobblestoned stretch of Dundas, a roughly 20-minute walk. It is likely they would’ve had to sidestep other young bar patrons spilling out into the street in the early hours after last call.
Entering the hotel, they would have passed at least one security camera affixed high on the northeast corner of the roof that covers arriving guests. When they entered the lobby, it was about a 17-step walk to the elevator bank. Another security camera on the ceiling just before the elevators would likely have captured their entrance.
As the glassed elevator climbed the tower, the woman could have viewed London. In the distance was Budweiser Gardens arena, situated right next to the stark Ontario courthouse, where the events to come would be detailed in a statement of claim four years later.
Security footage would not have captured the two entering a hotel room — multiple employees told The Athletic security cameras are not present on each floor — but a walk down the hallway would’ve been lit by wall sconces and guided by an art-deco floor pattern in the carpet.
According to the young woman’s statement of claim, at some point in the early-morning hours, she and John Doe 1 “engaged in sex acts” in his hotel room. Then, John Doe 1 invited his teammates to the room without her knowledge or consent.
According to the young woman’s statement of claim, they made her touch herself and perform oral sex on them. They straddled her and placed their genitals in her face. They slapped her buttocks, spit on her, ejaculated onto her, and engaged in vaginal intercourse while she was incapable of consent.
At one point, she started crying and tried to leave the room, she said. She was then “directed, manipulated and intimidated into remaining,” according to her statement of claim.
Throughout the alleged assaults, the young woman said she feared imminent physical harm. Some players brought their golf clubs into the room. The sheer number of them and the presence of the clubs made her feel intimidated and threatened. As a result, she said she acquiesced to the sexual acts.
“Any reasonable person … would have concluded the Plaintiff was not freely consenting in those circumstances and would have ceased the confinement of the plaintiff and the sexual behaviors toward her,” the claim states.
After it was over, the players told her to shower.
According to reports, two videos were made — the first was six seconds long and filmed at 3:30 a.m. and the second was 12 seconds and was filmed at 4:30 a.m. In the videos, the woman, following hours of drinking and what she says were several forced sexual acts, states that all that happened in the room was consensual.
The Athletic reached out to the young woman’s lawyer, Robert Talach, on multiple occasions but he declined comment and repeatedly stressed that his client does not wish to speak publicly. It is not clear from the statement of claim what the woman did next, how she got home, but at some point that morning, likely around the time the sun was coming up, she finally exited the hotel.
