WARNING: This article may affect those who have experienced sexual violence or know someone affected by it. A former Winnipeg hockey coach has pleaded guilty to sexual assault and luring after being charged last year in connection with what police described as a sexually exploitative relationship with a teenage player.
Madison Biluk was charged in November 2023 with a list of offences that also included sexual exploitation and possessing child pornography for abuse police said happened over about two years between 2019 and 2021.
Biluk, who's from Winnipeg, coached with Hockey Manitoba from 2018 to 2023 and is accused of "grooming and gaining the trust of the survivor" while she was a coach in her 20s, police said previously.
The abuse started when the girl was younger than 16 but continued after Biluk was no longer the teen's coach, they said. The situation came to light last October through a social media post made by the survivor.