Gymnastics coach who worked in Kingston, Ont. facing sexual assault charges
Global News has been able to determine that Cooper was hired at Kingston’s Trillium Gymnastics Club in 2019 through a since-deleted Facebook post. In the post, the club said it was excited to have Cooper join their staff.The news, however, is not a surprise to the CEO of Gymnastics Ontario.
“On April 11th, 2022, we notified both the complainants and Mr. Cooper that complaints have been brought against him and that we would be initiating an investigation on those allegations that we had received,” Dave Sanford said in an interview with Global News.He says it wasn’t long after their investigation was launched that Ottawa police became involved with an investigation of their own, but adds he wasn’t aware of how serious the allegations were until they became public Wednesday.
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