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OTTAWA — In often harrowing detail, six sexual assault victims recounted to an Ottawa court Wednesday how their lives have been devastated by former Ottawa minor hockey and baseball coach Kelly Jones.
Five of the victims are now grown men, the sixth a woman.
Jones had pleaded guilty to a series of predatory sexual offences against nine children between the late 1970s and 1997.
Crown prosecutor David Elhadad is seeking a sentence of between 11 and 12 years imprisonment for 58-year-old Jones.
As Jones listened to the men and woman deliver their often tearful, emotionally wrenching statements, Jones sat at the front of the court with his wife, occasionally bowing his head, occasionally glancing at his victims as they read their impact statements.
One man, now in his 30s, recounted how Jones has abused him for five years from age 10 and how the experience had left him wracked with guilt and traumatized.
“I suffered in silence,’ he said. “I went through my teen years consumed by guilt and shame, and confused about my sexuality … I contemplated suicide.”
The man described being turned from the brink of suicide after calling his girlfriend to bid a final goodbye.
She accused him of being selfish and helped him change his mind.
He drove to Brockville in an effort to get help at the mental health hospital, running red lights and stop signs in the early hours of the morning. He was stopped at the hospital gates by police officers in two cruisers, arrested for drunk driving and spent the night in a cell.
In common with many of the victims, the man feared telling his parents about the abuse but eventually, as an adult, he did tell them.
“I will never forget the devastation and pain in their faces,” he said. “I had never seen pain like it before and have not seen pain like it since.”
Many of the victims said they have abused alcohol and drugs as a crutch to cope with the trauma of the assaults and most have had sexual problems and have struggled to develop stable romantic relationships
One man, a promising hockey player with big league aspirations, told the court how he once loved the game and excelled at it.
“Kelly Jones ruined that for me,” he said. “I lost all interest in playing. I didn’t want to go to the arena.”
According to evidence filed in court, Jones invited players to his home where he typically showed them pornographic movies before luring them into sexual activity.
Although most are now adults, a publication ban forbids publication of the names of the victims, who ranged in age from seven to 15 years old at the time of the assaults.
In most cases, the years of assaults involved hockey and baseball players for the numerous teams Jones coached.
The earliest of the nine cases involved a nine-year-old boy who was on an Algonquin Park camping trip with Jones in 1981 and whom Jones sexually abused for four years afterwards.
According to the victim, Jones lured him on the camping trip under false pretences, made sexual advances toward him and threatened to kill both his parents if he told them.
Jones went on to become the boy’s scout leader and baseball coach.
Another victim was coached at the South End Capitals by Jones from 1991 to 1992 and said he was singled out by the coach who asked him to do odd jobs, such as helping to set up sound systems at special events.
One evening Jones asked him to stay over at his home in anticipation of an early morning start.
During the night, Jones gave him beer and they watched pornography together.
“The accused asked (the victim) to sleep in his room and, being his hockey coach, the victim felt he could not refuse,” the evidence says. “The accused spent the night with his arm around the victim.”
In another case, dating back to the summer of 1989, a 13-year-old victim babysat for Jones, who had arranged for him to sleep over.
Jones insisted the boy sleep with him in their underwear only and massaged the boy with baby oil.
“The victim loved baseball and did not want to disobey his coach so he complied,” says the evidence.
According to Hockey Canada, the last time Jones coached a Hockey Canada team was in 2002-2003.
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Five of the victims are now grown men, the sixth a woman.
Jones had pleaded guilty to a series of predatory sexual offences against nine children between the late 1970s and 1997.
Crown prosecutor David Elhadad is seeking a sentence of between 11 and 12 years imprisonment for 58-year-old Jones.
As Jones listened to the men and woman deliver their often tearful, emotionally wrenching statements, Jones sat at the front of the court with his wife, occasionally bowing his head, occasionally glancing at his victims as they read their impact statements.
One man, now in his 30s, recounted how Jones has abused him for five years from age 10 and how the experience had left him wracked with guilt and traumatized.
“I suffered in silence,’ he said. “I went through my teen years consumed by guilt and shame, and confused about my sexuality … I contemplated suicide.”
The man described being turned from the brink of suicide after calling his girlfriend to bid a final goodbye.
She accused him of being selfish and helped him change his mind.
He drove to Brockville in an effort to get help at the mental health hospital, running red lights and stop signs in the early hours of the morning. He was stopped at the hospital gates by police officers in two cruisers, arrested for drunk driving and spent the night in a cell.
In common with many of the victims, the man feared telling his parents about the abuse but eventually, as an adult, he did tell them.
“I will never forget the devastation and pain in their faces,” he said. “I had never seen pain like it before and have not seen pain like it since.”
Many of the victims said they have abused alcohol and drugs as a crutch to cope with the trauma of the assaults and most have had sexual problems and have struggled to develop stable romantic relationships
One man, a promising hockey player with big league aspirations, told the court how he once loved the game and excelled at it.
“Kelly Jones ruined that for me,” he said. “I lost all interest in playing. I didn’t want to go to the arena.”
According to evidence filed in court, Jones invited players to his home where he typically showed them pornographic movies before luring them into sexual activity.
Although most are now adults, a publication ban forbids publication of the names of the victims, who ranged in age from seven to 15 years old at the time of the assaults.
In most cases, the years of assaults involved hockey and baseball players for the numerous teams Jones coached.
The earliest of the nine cases involved a nine-year-old boy who was on an Algonquin Park camping trip with Jones in 1981 and whom Jones sexually abused for four years afterwards.
According to the victim, Jones lured him on the camping trip under false pretences, made sexual advances toward him and threatened to kill both his parents if he told them.
Jones went on to become the boy’s scout leader and baseball coach.
Another victim was coached at the South End Capitals by Jones from 1991 to 1992 and said he was singled out by the coach who asked him to do odd jobs, such as helping to set up sound systems at special events.
One evening Jones asked him to stay over at his home in anticipation of an early morning start.
During the night, Jones gave him beer and they watched pornography together.
“The accused asked (the victim) to sleep in his room and, being his hockey coach, the victim felt he could not refuse,” the evidence says. “The accused spent the night with his arm around the victim.”
In another case, dating back to the summer of 1989, a 13-year-old victim babysat for Jones, who had arranged for him to sleep over.
Jones insisted the boy sleep with him in their underwear only and massaged the boy with baby oil.
“The victim loved baseball and did not want to disobey his coach so he complied,” says the evidence.
According to Hockey Canada, the last time Jones coached a Hockey Canada team was in 2002-2003.
ccobb@ottawacitizen.com
twitter.com/chrisicobb
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