Child sexual abuse: Canada vs the U.S.

By Vanessa Brown

Graham James, who was convicted for 350 charges of child sexual abuse in the '90s, was granted bail last week and released from jail on unrelated child sexual assault charges. James is a former Winnipeg minor hockey league coach now infamous for molesting ex-NHLers Sheldon Kennedy and Theo Fleury in the 1970s and '80s.

He initially served two-and-a-half years (from 1997 to 2001) for sexually assaulting Kennedy and an unnamed minor hockey league player. James was arrested in October on an additional nine counts of sexual assault. According to the Globe and Mail, Fleury said that Canadians "pride ourselves on being one of the safest countries in the world and a decision like the one that was made today doesn't really say a lot, make a statement that we're protecting our children, because we're not."

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