Former NHL player Kyle Beach has come forward as the “John Doe” in a sexual assault case stemming from 2010.
Beach, now 31 and playing professionally in Germany, revealed himself as John Doe in an emotional interview on TSN on Wednesday, (watch below) saying he felt “relief and vindication” and “it was no longer my word against everybody else’s.”
photographed from right to left: Kyle Beach and Brad Aldrich
An investigation by the law firm Jenner & Block, commissioned by the Blackhawks, was made public Tuesday. The report concluded that “nothing was done” by senior leaders in Blackhawks coaching and management in 2010 after Beach reported that Brad Aldrich, then the team’s video coach, had sexually assaulted and harassed him.
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