NHL Blackhawks Sexual Abuse Case: Explained
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🗓️ 2 November 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | For me, I wanted to come forward and put my name on this. |
| 0:06.0 | I've been a survivor. |
| 0:08.0 | I am a survivor and I know I'm not alone. |
| 0:12.0 | And I buried this for 10 years, 11 years, and it's destroyed me from the inside out. |
| 0:21.6 | That's Kyle Beach. |
| 0:23.6 | He's the pro hockey player who has now stepped forward as the John Doe, |
| 0:27.6 | detailing sexual abuse by a coach with the Chicago Blackhawks back in 2010. |
| 0:32.6 | And here's National Hockey League Commissioner Gary Bedman, speaking to Kyle's case. |
| 0:38.3 | It is clear that what happened was inappropriate. |
| 0:43.3 | It was wrong on every level, and it was not handled correctly by the Blackhawks organization. |
| 0:53.3 | Today, ESPN NHL reporter Emily Kaplan explains how a team and a league failed one of its own |
| 1:00.7 | by covering up abuse and what happens now a decade later, as the truth is told. |
| 1:08.1 | I'm Pablo Torre. It's Tuesday, November 2nd. This is ESPN Daily. |
| 1:18.5 | Emily Kaplan, thanks for talking with us. Thanks for your reporting on this story. |
| 1:22.6 | Thanks, Pablo. So we're here to talk about sexual abuse allegations in the Chicago Blackhawks organization. |
| 1:28.4 | And this story is complex. Of course it is. It's a story that spans more than a decade. It's still ongoing. |
| 1:35.1 | And I just want to start here, Emily, with the player who came forward as the John Doe in this situation. |
| 1:40.4 | Kyle Beach. |
| 1:42.3 | Who is Kyle Beach? |
| 1:45.0 | So Pablo and hockey, we often identify players by their birth year, and Kyle is in 90, which |
| 1:50.5 | means he's currently 31 years old. |
| 1:52.8 | He was born in North Vancouver. |
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