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Youth Hockey Coach Sentenced to Jail For Tripping 13-Year-Old
Players get two minutes in the penalty box for tripping. Coaches who trip opposing 13-year-old players in the handshake line get a bit more time. A judge in British Columbia sentenced Martin Tremblay, youth hockey coach and clearly someone who has never seen those cheesy “Sportsmanship: Pass It On” ads, to serve 15 days in jail for being an adult who bullies kids.
Footage of Tremblay, a 48-year-old man, tripping a 13-year-old player in the handshake line after a game in June 2012 bounced all over the Internet. The kid broke his wrist and fell into a younger player.
Tremblay on Tuesday received a sentence of 15 days in jail and 12 months of probation, though he will serve out most of his 15-day sentence intermittently on weekends, according to the CBC
Youth Hockey Coach Sentenced to Jail For Tripping 13-Year-Old
Players get two minutes in the penalty box for tripping. Coaches who trip opposing 13-year-old players in the handshake line get a bit more time. A judge in British Columbia sentenced Martin Tremblay, youth hockey coach and clearly someone who has never seen those cheesy “Sportsmanship: Pass It On” ads, to serve 15 days in jail for being an adult who bullies kids.
Footage of Tremblay, a 48-year-old man, tripping a 13-year-old player in the handshake line after a game in June 2012 bounced all over the Internet. The kid broke his wrist and fell into a younger player.
Tremblay on Tuesday received a sentence of 15 days in jail and 12 months of probation, though he will serve out most of his 15-day sentence intermittently on weekends, according to the CBC
Bellows said his client has “paid a huge price” for his actions, including the breakdown of his marriage and the loss of a number of contracts for his construction business.
“He’s rebuilding his life after this incident,” Bellows told reporters outside the courthouse in Richmond, B.C., on Tuesday. It was unlikely, Bellows said, that Tremblay would ever coach hockey again.
“It’s horrible. He put in years and years coaching hockey, he put in years and years as a scout master. And that all over … because of one incident when he was off his antidepressants for three weeks.”
“He’s rebuilding his life after this incident,” Bellows told reporters outside the courthouse in Richmond, B.C., on Tuesday. It was unlikely, Bellows said, that Tremblay would ever coach hockey again.
“It’s horrible. He put in years and years coaching hockey, he put in years and years as a scout master. And that all over … because of one incident when he was off his antidepressants for three weeks.”
