On Thursday, the parole board touched on the impact his crimes had on his victims, who number 20 by his own admission. James was granted day parole in January and the board members agreed he’d shown progress over the past months. James is serving a federal sentence for sexually assaulting players he coached in the late 1980s and early ’90s with the Swift Current Broncos of the Western Hockey League. The decision was handed down by the National Parole Board following a hearing at a federal penitentiary in Laval, north of Montreal. “It was a great failure in my life that I let them down.”Under full parole, James will now serve the remainder of his sentence in the community.

Source: thestar September 15, 2016 15:22 UTC