Former E.O. Smith Coach Accused of Witness Tampering in Lewd-Video Case

Jeffrey Sirois, the former girls’ soccer coach accused of sending lewd videos to teenagers when he was soccer coach of the E.O. Smith High School team, was arrested Tuesday on a charge of tampering with a witness, according to NBC Connecticut.

Sirois, 57, of Lebanon, posted a $5,000 bond and is due in court in Norwich on Dec. 11, according to NBC.

Sirois recently pleaded not guilty to the charges of his initial Oct. 3 arrest and his attorney John O’Brien said at the time that his client “is profoundly remorseful that this is alleged to have occurred and we’re gonna get to the bottom of this and he hopes to get back to his first love in life which is soccer,” according to a report on NBC Connecticut.

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Sirois has said, according to other published reports, that on Sept. 25 he sent a short video of himself masturbating through the Snapchat application on his cell phone, meaning to send it to his girlfriend but instead sending it to everyone on his list of connections for Snapchat. As soon as he discovered the mistake, he removed the video, but by then several members of the soccer team had seen it, some of them while having a pizza together.

Arrested Oct. 3, Sirois was released on $100,000 bond. He is charged with risk of injury to a minor, a felony, and the misdemeanor charges of two counts of committing an obscene act and two counts of second-degree breach of peace. He is due in court on Dec. 10 for those charges, according to the Connecticut Judicial Branch website.

Read more at NBC Connecticut here.