We agree with Superior Court Justice Maria Carroccia’s acquittal of five members of Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team on charges of sexual assault stemming from their sexual conduct with a then 20-year-old woman in a London, Ont. hotel room on June 19, 2018.

Carroccia’s ruling, which she telegraphed early in her lengthy explanation on Thursday of the reasons for her decision — that the woman’s testimony was neither credible nor reliable and that the Crown had not proven the charges against the five accused beyond a reasonable doubt — was justified given the evidence at trial. Article content

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This included her finding that the woman — whose identity was protected and known only as E.M. — consented to the sexual acts with th

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