A ‘living hell’: More disturbing allegations made as QMJHL hazing lawsuit filed

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Five more players have detailed degrading, humiliating and abusive trauma they say they suffered as minors during hazing rituals while in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League between the 1970s and 2000s.

A long-awaited lawsuit, officially filed Tuesday with the Superior Court of Quebec after getting green-lit in April, contains details from five more men in addition to Carl Latulippe, a former Quebec minor hockey star, who went public last year with the alleged abuse he suffered while playing for two teams in the mid-1990s.

Referred to as members A to E, the five players — then rookies — played with various teams during the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s and were about 17 years old at the time.

According to the court filings, the five players allege disturbing sexual and bodily humiliation, as well as emotional and psychological humiliation and distress that left them dealing with decades of unresolved trauma, anger, addiction, alcohol and substance abuse, and significant self-esteem issues.

The class action describes these events as a “living hell” for the players.

The 58-page legal filing details many alleged disturbing incidents, including various painful and lengthy acts of sodomization while being pinned down by team members, being forced to perform dehumanizing acts in public while naked, enduring painful acts to their genitals causing burns and being forced to swallow items that had been inserted in other players’ anuses.

Several of the former players also struggled to continue on with the sport, their careers, lost productivity and suffered difficulty in