TIMELINE: Gordon Stuckless sex abuse cases

Months after pleading guilty to 100 charges related to the sexual abuse of 18 boys, child molester Gordon Stuckless, one of the men convicted in the Maple Leaf Gardens sex abuse scandal, has been convicted in two more charges linked to two of those victims.

The 64 year old was found guilty on Wednesday of two counts of gross indecency but acquitted on two counts of buggery. Stuckless had contested all four charges even though he admitted as part of his guilty plea to committing other types of abuse against the same victims decades ago.

He also fought four other charges but those were withdrawn during trial.

Here’s a timeline of events involving Stuckless and his abuse of boys that court records show dated back to 1968.

April 14, 2014: Stuckless pleads guilty to 100 new charges related to the sexual abuse of 18 underage boys decades ago.

May 28-29, 2014: Stuckless takes the stand for two days at his trial at his buggery and gross indecency trial. He testifies that he was abused by two men himself. “He should be in Hollywood,” says Michael McTague, a victim from the 1990s, who believes Stuckless can turn his emotions on and off. Another victim Allan Donnan says it’s offensive for Stuckless to claim that being abused led him to his 40 years of abusing boys.

Feb. 7, 2013: Stuckless faces eight new charges including six counts of indecent assault of a male, assault and possession of a weapon, Toronto police say.

1999: John Paul Roby, an usher at the Maple Leaf Gardens arena, is convicted in the same scandal. He dies in prison in 2001.

1997: Stuckless pleads guilty to sex assaults on two dozen boys while he was an usher at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto between 1969 and 1988. But he pleads not guilty to another eight charges involving three of those victims.

He was originally sentenced to two years less a day, a sentence which led to the suicide of Martin Kruze, the victim who brought the sex abuse scandal to light.

Stuckless’s sentence was later increased to five years and he was out on parole in 2001 after serving two-thirds of it.

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