Female coach sentenced to six years in prison

Manitoba Provincial Court Judge Jerilee Ryle sentenced former minor hockey coach Madison Biluk to six years in prison today for sexual assault of a minor.

Madison Biluk, a former girls hockey coach in Manitoba and Alberta, pleaded guilty to two charges related to sexual exploitation and was taken into custody to begin serving her sentence yesterday.

The Judge ruled that Biluk's actions against a teenage girl were an abuse of her authority and that the coach had a knowledge of the young player's mental health issues and traumas.

"This is not a simple error in judgment. These actions persisted for 16 months and were perpetrated in secrecy, through deception and repeated violations against the victim," Judge Ryle stated when delivering her decision.

Biluk was just 28 years old when she was arrested on 15 offences including sexual assault, sexual exploitation and luring in 2023. Investigators received a tip from an anonymous source from within her hockey association that Biluk and a teenage girl developed a "sexually exploitive relationship" from 2019 - 2021.

Biluk was accused of "grooming and gaining the trust" of a teenager girl under the age of 16, while Biluk herself was approximately 24-26 years old.