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The Regina Police Service has charged a 68-year-old man with the sexual assault of one of the female gymnasts he was coaching at the time.
Marcel L. Dubroy is alleged to have committed the offences between Jan. 1, 2002, and April 30, 2008, when the victim was in her teens.
“It is not common practice for the Regina Police Service to include information about an accused person’s occupation but, in this case, the alleged offences are the result of the position of authority and trust held by the accused over the victim during the years that he was her gymnastics coach, living and working in Regina,” the police said Tuesday in a media release.
“The access to numerous young persons by virtue of a coaching position, combined with the nature of the alleged offences, prompted this decision to release information about the occupation of the accused.”
The Regina police first received report of the alleged sexual assault in November from the Ottawa Police Service, which took the original report. The victim, who is now 30, alleged her gymnastics coach had sexually assaulted her over a number of years.
The investigation led Regina police officers to Smithers, B.C., where Dubroy now lives and is still coaching. He was arrested in that city and charged with sexual assault, sexual assault of a person under the age of 16, sexual exploitation in a position of trust, sexual interference, and invitation to sexual touching.
Dubroy was suspended by Gymnastics Canada on May 21 for what it called “alleged Code of Ethics and Conduct violations.” That suspension was imposed after the police investigation began.
Dubroy is set to make his first appearance on the charges in Regina Provincial Court on July 17.