Curling chair resigns in wake of soccer abuse investigation
Sudbury’s Jennifer Beaudin, pictured here last year, is heading to Ottawa on Monday night to tell the Canadian Judicial Council about the recent revelations involving the men’s junior national team and their coach at the time, John Hermansen.
Sudbury’s Jennifer Beaudin, pictured here last year, is heading to Ottawa on Monday night to tell the Canadian Judicial Council about the recent revelations involving the men’s junior national team and their coach at the time, John Hermansen.
Sudbury’s Jennifer Beaudin, shown here in June, has just been accepted into the Canadian Judicial Council’s new gender-balanced panel on sexual-abuse.
Sudbury’s Jennifer Beaudin, a former athlete, is heading to Ottawa on Monday night to tell the Canadian Judicial Council about the recent revelations involving the men’s junior national team and their coach at the time, John Hermansen.
Jennifer Beaudin, a Sudbury resident and a longtime member of the Sudbury District Council, said she has resigned as a volunteer on the District Council’s executive committee.
The Council accepted her resignation Friday in the wake of the recent findings in the report by former RCMP Commissioner Tom Stamatakis.
“The decision to accept Jennifer’s resignation is in no way meant to minimize the significance of the issues of sexualized violence or harassment in sport,” said Councillor Susan Juhan, who is also on the Executive Committee but will be absent from Monday’s meeting.
The RCMP began an investigation in 2006 into allegations of inappropriate touching by Hermansen with three boys involved in his senior men’s team at the International Junior Men’s Curling Championships. Stamatakis released his findings on Aug. 11, 2010, saying there was clear evidence of what he described as “unwarranted and inappropriate sexual contact and/or behavior.”
The report said the RCMP began an investigation into one incident involving Hermansen allegedly grabbing, lifting up and moving, and caressing