Jury finds former Canucks forward Jake Virtanen not guilty of sexual assault NHL
Virtanen was charged in January with sexual assault in connection with an incident in a downtown Vancouver hotel room in September 2017.
The 23-year-old woman, whose identity is covered by a publication ban, testified that she repeatedly said “no” and told Virtanen that she did not want to have sex with him before he pinned her to the hotel bed with his body weight. The woman testified that she had a “sinking feeling” in her stomach when they arrived, but she trusted Virtanen, so she went up to his room.Article contentIn April 2021, she posted her story to an Instagram page for survivors of sexual assault, then spoke with a reporter from Glacier Media for a newspaper story, naming Virtanen as the man who allegedly sexually assaulted her, and launched a civil lawsuit against him.
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