The complainant at the centre of an alleged group sexual assault that's shaken Canada's sports world says she has fully cooperated at all times with a police investigation into her case, despite Hockey Canada originally saying she didn't.
The woman filed a $3.5 million lawsuit in April that said in 2018, eight hockey players including members of Canada's World Junior team sexually assaulted, humiliated and degraded her at a hotel room in London, Ontario.
The statement of claim, that has not been proven in court, said the hockey players brought golf clubs to the hotel room to further intimidate her, directed the woman to shower after the sexual assault and told her to say she was sober while they videotaped a consent video.
As first reported by the Globe and Mail Tuesday, the complainant's lawyer Robert Talach released a statement saying that his client was clear to police in June 2018 that she wanted criminal charges pursued. "This woman has fully engaged and cooperated with all the legal and formal investigations surrounding these events," wrote Talach in a statement shared with CBC News.