Former NHL draft pick hopes speaking out about alleged sexual abuse gives others "the power to come forward"
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Former Chicago Blackhawks minor league player Kyle Beach told "CBS Mornings" on Thursday that he has begun healing after allegedly being sexually abused by former Blackhawks video coach Brad Aldrich in 2010. Aldrich has denied the allegation.
"As I've begun this healing process and I've continued through this process since I contacted Susan [Loggans, who represents Beach] about a year and a half ago, it's been an amazing uplifting experience to share my story, to be able to speak out about my story, to have other people to talk about my story," Beach said.
"For me, realizing this and now looking back and kind of going over my life over the last 10, 11 years, there's a lot of things that I think I'd like to have back and a lot of moments that I've lost because ... I wasn't myself and I didn't have the capacity to manage those situations," he added.
Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.