Thursday, April 3, 2014

Heidi Ferber, ex-hockey coach, gets 1 year in jail in teen sex case

Heidi Ferber, a former hockey coach in Kamloops, B.C., was sentenced
Wednesday after pleading guilty to sexual exploitation of a minor
Former Kamloops, B.C., hockey coach Heidi Ferber has been sentenced to a year in jail after pleading guilty to charges stemming from the affair she started with teenage hockey player Chanelle Petrie.

During sentencing, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Hope Hyslop said Ferber took every opportunity to have sex with Petrie over several months.

Ferber sobbed as she apologized to the teen she sexually exploited, the youth's parents who trusted her, and her own family.

Petrie, who was in the courtroom to hear the sentence, said it's the end of a chapter in her life.

"It's like a huge weight was lifted off my chest and I feel like now it's finally time for me to put this behind me and to start using it to get my life going," she told CBC News.

Petrie said she doesn't know if she can forgive Ferber for the sexual exploitation that robbed her of her youth.  (more...)

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