Molesting Ex-Coach Gets 40 Years

The former coach who sexually molested boys while he was a baseball coach in Concord and other communities in New Hampshire and New England was sentenced to 40 years in prison on Feb. 18, according to WMUR-TV.

Last year, Robert Joubert, 60, was convicted of three counts of sexual exploitation of a child and a child pornography count, where he recording the assaults on video. Today, he was sentenced.

The case first came to light two years ago after a police department in Maine received an email about past allegations. At the time, Joubert was working for the Seacoast Baseball Academy in York, Maine.

Police in Concord had investigated assault allegations in the 1990s but the investigation was later dropped. The molestation assaults spanned three decades, according the victims. Joubert also coached and led clinics and camps in Bedford, Portsmouth, Newington, as well as Massachusetts and New York.

Read the full story on WMUR-TV.

Read previous coverage by Patch below

• Manchester Coach Arrested for Assaulting Concord Boys
• Court Docs: Coach Sexually Assaulted Boys as Young as 9
• More Sexual Assault Victims Coming Forward in Coach Scandal
• Youth Coach Guilty in Molestation Case