Breaking: Documents reveal disturbing details of sexual assault by NHL player.

This may yet turn out to be one of the worst stories we will cover this year.

Some extremely disturbing details have been revealed through a court document filed in U.S. District Court, documents that describe in graphic detail an alleged sexual assault perpetrated by the Nashville Predators' Mike Ribeiro on the nanny he hired to take care of his children.

The nanny claims the assault occurred in August of 2012, after she had just turned 18 years old and when Ribeiro was a member of the Washington Capitals. However the nanny claims the sexual advances from Ribeiro began as early as 2007, but things took a very dark turn one night in August of 20102.

Warning the description of events below, obtained from the aforementioned court documents, is extremely graphic:

A few days before [the nanny] was scheduled to leave, Mike and Tamara went out with some of Mike's teammates. When they came home, Mike went down to the basement where [she] was sleeping with the kids. ... [The nanny] woke up with Mike's hands all over her. She did not move. She tried to say something but nothing would come out. Mike saw [she] was awake, but he did not stop. [She] mustered her voice and told him he needed to leave.

She did not scream because she did not want to wake the children who were in the bed right next to her. Mike was fully clothed and wearing a suit. His hand was on her breasts and he was pleasuring himself at the same time. [...]

Mike came back sometime later— this time just in his underwear. [The nanny] woke up with Mike forcing his hand down her panties. She grabbed at the blanket and started saying: "What are you doing?!?" He took his other hand that had been down his underwear and put it over her mouth and held down, intentionally and willfully restraining her against her will and without her consent. [The nanny] could not excercise [sic] her will to leave due to the force and threat of force from Mike.

Having restrained [the nanny] against her will, Mike then sexually assaulted [her] by shoving his fingers inside her vagina. [She] said he needed to leave and not come back.

It's important to note that this is a civil case and not a criminal trial for Ribeiro, and it's also worth noting that the complaint was filed some time after the events, however that is not unusual in cases of sexual assault.

Mike Ribeiro has previously stated that these accusations are false, and he has continued to main his innocence throughout this process, now it's for the courts to decide. If you would like to read the full court document it can be found here, but once again the descriptions in the document are disturbing.