Thread: Graham James only gets 2 years in prison?

Graham James, former Canadian ice hockey coach for the Western Hockey League (WHL) was sentenced today and received only 2 years in prison for sexually abusing former NHL hockey player Theo Fleury and another hockey player that James coached.

Are you kidding me? Only 2 years?

James sexually abused these hockey players hundreds of times when they were children. Mind you this is his second sentence from the new charges from Theo Fleury and his cousin Todd Holt. The judge said that his sentence was reduced since he went through rehab. James first sentence was when Sheldon Kennedy (another former NHL player) came forward in the 1990s and he received 6.5 years in prison.

So a total of only 8.5 years in prison for sexualy abusing young children while he coached them? That is ****ing horrible.

Graham James sentenced to two years for abusing players

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Honestly if you're not going to go the death penalty route exile is probably the only other punishment that's worthwhile. I don't get the point of prison.

8.5 years in total is actually a lot in Canada. I'm sure that if the charges, which occurred at basically the same time, actually had been pressed at the same time, he would have gotten less than 8.5 years.

Maybe they figure that once he's in jail, he ain't making it out of there...if you get my drift.

That is my hope.

But the judge also pointed out that Mr. James expressed remorse, apologized to his victims and has experienced what she called “an extreme degree of humiliation” — factors that warranted a reduction in his sentence.

Disgusting rationale.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...rticle2375149/

Originally Posted by Drunken Crunker

That is my hope.



Disgusting rationale.

Graham James sentenced to two years in prison in sex assault case - The Globe and Mail

What a joke! I have gained so much respect for Fleury and the way he has handled this.

Would have been awesome if they chained him to a goal post (in his underwear) and allowed everyone he abused to take as many slap shots as they want on him.

Interesting article from Vancouver Province writer Ed Willes. He notes how the Graham James case has haunted him for years. According to Willes he says he was told about what was going on 20 years ago but never wrote about it.

Makes you wonder how many people knew or suspected about what was going on but remained silent.

What a shame.

The conversation happened over 20 years ago and it still sticks to me.

Oh, how it sticks to me.

Bernie Lynch, then the coach of the WHL Regina Pats, and I were chatting when the conversation turned to the Swift Current Broncos.

The Broncos, to that point in the 1988-89 season, had written a remarkable story. Two years after a bus crash had killed four of their players, they'd built a powerhouse under head coach Graham James and star forward Sheldon Kennedy.

That season they went 55-16-1 and swept all three playoff series before winning the Memorial Cup in Saskatoon. Playing a dazzling speed-and-skill game, they were the talk of the league and that summer, I would write a story for The Hockey News heralding Graham James as hockey's man of the year.

Suffice to say that team and James is now remembered for other reasons.

“Do you know what's going on with Graham and Sheldon?” Lynch asked, before describing the pattern of abuse that Kennedy would make public some eight years later.

I've since asked myself five hundred times why I didn't do more to expose James; why I didn't ask more questions; why I didn't dig deeper. Lynch was hardly a WHL insider – it would be his only year coaching the Pats – and if he knew, it stood to reason others knew.

Kennedy abuse at hands of Graham James has fallout beyond the expected

Originally Posted by Drunken Crunker

Interesting article from Vancouver Province writer Ed Willes. He notes how the Graham James case has haunted him for years. According to Willes he says he was told about what was going on 20 years ago but never wrote about it.

Makes you wonder how many people knew or suspected about what was going on but remained silent.

What a shame.




Kennedy abuse at hands of Graham James has fallout beyond the expected

Yeah, that sickens me too. When things like this come out there are always people who knew or suspected something that did nothing. IMO those people should be held responsible for heir lack of action as well. That is why this story and every story like it needs to be told!

Two years? For what he did? I hope there's a lot of outrage in Canada over the judge's decision, not that it will do anything. Disgusting.