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At a Senate hearing earlier this month, former pro hockey player Sheldon Kennedy told his story of childhood abuse by a respected coach in Canada.
“In every case of child abuse — certainly in my own — there are people who had a gut feeling that something was wrong,” Kennedy said, “but didn’t do anything about it.”
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