But a flight attendant who says Williams touched her twice remains in counselling: ‘Mr. Williams has taken away so much from me’
The Ottawa Crown Attorney’s office has dropped its sexual assault case against retired NHL enforcer David “Tiger” Williams after the former hockey player apologized for his regrettable behaviour aboard a drunken 2017 “Team Canada” trip that cost a military flight attendant her “dream career” and put her in the throes of PTSD.
The December 2017 “Team Canada” tour, with VIPs who were supposed to boost the morale of military personnel deployed overseas, turned into a fiasco. Williams didn’t attend court, but the flight attendant did, and she filed an impact statement as part of the agreed resolution. “I felt very powerless and lost on the flight, as the example is supposed to come from the top, ‘if you see something, say something,’ but the top was there, and they didn’t do anything to help us ,” she wrote.
She said she’s no longer the same person. Just a husk, she said, of how she once was — motivated, animated and outgoing. “Now I’m terrified, depressed, medicated, and anxious. My entire world has been flipped upside down,” she said.She said the former NHLer’s apology is a good thing but it should have been heartfelt and freely offered.“If I hear a phrase that Mr.
Vance had said he was disappointed about what happened on the flight but he staunchly defended the tours, pointing out they provide a valuable boost in morale to troops. “The band playing in the back of the plane, that’s some team building for people who have never met soldiers before and are going to go into maybe a dangerous place,” he told reporters about the flight last year. “So, it’s not a Mardi Gras. It’s not a party. It’s a mission.
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