“I buried this for 10, 11 years and it’s destroyed me from the inside out.”

“I am a survivor and I know I’m not the only one, male or female,” Beach said in an interview this week with Rick Westhead of Canada’s TSN network. He allowed his name to be revealed a few days ago, following the release of a report by a former federal prosecutor that said the Blackhawks’ senior leaders failed him by waiting three weeks to refer his allegation against video coach Brad Aldrich to the organization’s human resources department, and failed him again by neglecting to investigate Aldrich’s actions. Their cowardice has cost Kyle Beach, then a 20-year-old prospect, more than a decade of anguish. Driven by callous self-interest, unwilling to face an issue that arose at a time they considered inconvenient, Chicago Blackhawks executives ignored a player’s allegation that he had been sexually assaulted by the team’s video coach during the 2010 playoffs, and had been threatened with harm to his career unless he kept silent.

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