Current Yaroslavl Lokomotiv forward and former NHLer Reid Boucher has plead guilty to "third-degree criminal sexual conduct involving sexual penetration with an individual between the ages of 13 and 16 years old," stemming from an incident that occurred back in 2011, when he was just 17 years old.
At the time of the incident, Boucher had been living with a billet family in Michigan and was a member of the US National Development Team, just prior to his draft year.
The original charge that Boucher faced was much more serious and could have sent him to prison for life, but the judge in the case had allowed Boucher to take a plea deal in December in exchange for a lesser charge. Due to the conditions of his sentence in his deal, Boucher could possibly avoid jail time through the Holmes Youthful Trainee Act (HYTA), per the Detroit Free Press.
The victim was reportedly just 12 years old at the time, and was blackmailed into performing oral sex on the then 17-year-old. Per the victim, it happened on multiple occasions.
