If he stays out of trouble for one year, Ted Anstett won’t have a criminal record.
The former Waterloo Siskins hockey player pleaded guilty in May to assaulting his ex-girlfriend.
Court heard that in September 2012, several months after the end of their relationship, Anstett and the then-21-year-old woman met at a bar.
Anstett offered the woman a ride home, only to lock her in the car and take her phone.
The woman was able to get out of the vehicle, court documents show, but was tackled into a nearby ditch by Anstett while attempting to get help.
Appearing in a Kitchener court on Thursday, Anstett was given a conditional discharge – meaning that if he completes a one-year period of probation, he will not be registered as convicted.
He also has a five-year ban from owning weapons.
“I would say the judge looked at his past life, which was unblemished, and looked at the efforts since the events by Mr. Anstett to make amends,” defence lawyer Craig Parry told CTV News outside court.
The sentence means that Anstett likely won’t have issues continuing to play hockey and attend university in the United States, Parry said.
