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Maple Leaf Garden sex offender Gordon Stuckless dead

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TJ Tucker
April 10, 2020  (7:18)
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Gordon Stuckless, the infamous person at the heart of the Maple Leaf Gardens sex offender scandal, has died according to his lawyer. Ari Goldkind said Stuckless had a brain hemorrhage on Tuesday and died Thursday night at a hospital in Hamilton, Ont.

“Mr. Stuckless left a trail of devastation in his wake. Of that there can be no doubt. I saw that firsthand in my representation of him over the last decade,” Goldkind said in an email.

“Upon his release from jail, he made a vow to never repeat the monstrous acts he committed that ruined so many innocent young lives.”

In 2016 court was told that Stuckless, who was a volunteer hockey coach and teaching assistant on top of working at the famed Toronto arena, befriended boys and lured them with gifts and activities, sometimes even getting to know their families. Stuckless previously pleaded guilty in 1997 for sex assaults on 24 boys while he worked as an equipment manager at Maple Leaf Gardens between 1969 and 1988.

Stuckless had been living at a halfway house since being paroled in December.