The man at the heart of the Maple Leaf Gardens sexual abuse scandal has died. Gordon Stuckless died Thursday night at a hospital in Hamilton after a brain hemorrhage Tuesday, lawyer Ari Goldkind said.
Stuckless was in his early 70s. Stuckless was sentenced in 2016 to 6 1/2 years in prison — six after credit for his time on house arrest — for more than 100 offenses related to the sexual abuse of 18 boys over three decades.
He was released to a halfway house on day parole in December. “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