An update to a co-production from CTV News and TSN includes that four York Regional Police Service officers involved in investigating the death of a 17-year-old hockey player have been found negligent by the Ontario Provincial Police.
Years after 17-year-old Ben Teague died during an overnight “team building” event hosted by his Oakville Rangers minor hockey team, four York Regional Police Service officers involved in investigating his death have been found negligent by the Ontario Provincial Police.
Jennifer Ross, a detective sergeant in the OPP’s professional standards unit, concluded in an Oct. 23, 2023, report that allegations of “neglect of duty” had been substantiated against detective sergeants Heather Bentham and Kenneth Golding, Det. John Loughry, and Sgt. Robert Worthman. Ontario’s police watchdog, the Office of the Independent Police Review Director, commissioned the OPP to investigate York Regional Police.
Two years after Ben’s death, police still had not interviewed all of the Rangers players and coaches. In September 2021, Dr. Chris Veenama, a coroner involved with the case, issued a warrant for police to obtain the roster of players and personnel in attendance at the camp, the report says.
(Even today, several of the players still have not been interviewed.)
It’s unclear whether York Regional Police disciplined any of the officers who were found negligent.
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