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There’s a 10-year-old girl somewhere in Ottawa who is too afraid to go to the library.

The last time she went, once-popular Barrhaven hockey coach Michael Hull masturbated in front of her. She was nine years old.

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In fact, Hull, 50, followed the girl around at least twice on different days — at the library and at a discount store. He performed indecent acts both times in front of the terrified girl. Those encounters with the predator have altered the young girl’s life in the worst ways.

She’s afraid to be alone.

“I feel disgusted … I’m afraid that this will happen again to me or to someone else. I’m scared to be alone in places, especially public ones because who knows what he could do next,” the girl wrote in a victim-impact statement read in court by Crown Attorney James Cavanagh on Friday after Hull pleaded guilty to committing an indecent act and accessing child porn.

“I think he should be in jail for a long time because I just don’t want to have a fear like that,” the girl wrote.