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Wake With Elias: Reid Boucher convicted of sexually assaulting 12-year-old girl in 2011

“My entire life was kind of shattered into a million pieces,” the survivor said.

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Former Vancouver Canuck Reid Boucher just pled guilty to an absolutely disgusting sex crime.
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Disgusting.

Absolutely disgusting.

News broke on Friday that former Vancouver Canuck winger Reid Boucher has just pled guilty to the sexual assault of a 12-year-old girl back in 2011.

Boucher was 17 years old at the time. The 12-year-old girl was the daughter of Boucher’s billet family in Plymouth, Michigan.

According to the story and testimony from the woman, Boucher blackmailed the 12-year-old, and forced her into oral sex on two occasions.

Read about the woman’s testimony below.

“He’s never had to face any accountability. And then in the meantime…my entire life was kind of shattered into a million pieces,” she said. “I’ve had to piece that together over the past 10 years.”

The original charge of first-degree criminal sexual misconduct carried a prison sentence of 25 years. However, Boucher entered a plea deal that will likely see him avoid jail time.

His hearing is scheduled for January 31st.

Boucher has been hiding from the reality of his atrocities over in the KHL, where he plays for Yaroslavl Lokomotiv.

There are so many disgusting elements of this story. The acts themselves, the blackmail, the fact that he took advantage of his billet parent’s daughter, the fact that the U.S. justice system is letting the victim down.

All of it absolutely sucks. Fuck Reid Boucher.

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