Former NHL player Reid Boucher was sentenced today after pleading guilty to sexual assault on a 12-year-old minor, from the billet family Reid was staying with during his minor league hockey when he was 17 years old.
The female victim, now 23, had this to say,
"I'm so glad that even if this wasn't the outcome that I was hoping for, that it worked out in the end, in some capacity," she said in an anonymous quote provided to the Detroit Free Press.
Reid Boucher is a genuine, caring and hard working young man. We were prepared to go to trial, but the prosecution presented a fair deal and Reid chose what was best for his family".
