The two men who the police say were sexually assaulted by a former Concord baseball coach provided investigators detailed information about the decades-old alleged assaults, including specific locations, according to a police affidavit released yesterday.
One of Robert Joubert’s accusers, now 29, had never spoken of the alleged assaults until the police knocked on his door in June, the affidavit said.
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Joubert, 58, of Manchester, was arrested Thursday and charged with four counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault and one count of misdemeanor sexual assault. The charges allege Joubert sexually assaulted two boys between 1983 and 2004 while coaching their baseball teams. Joubert coached Little League and Babe Ruth baseball, and offered private coaching, according to his website.
He most recently coached baseball players through the Seacoast Baseball Academy in York, Maine, according to his website.
Joubert could face more charges here and elsewhere, the police said. The FBI is also investigating Joubert, who has coached throughout New England, as are law enforcement agencies in Maine and New Hampshire. The FBI has set up a designated phone line for information about Joubert: 1-800-Call-FBI. Press 9 and then press 3.
Joubert has pleaded not guilty to the charges and is being held at the Merrimack County jail on $450,000 cash-only bail. He was arraigned at the Concord Hospital on Thursday after suffering an unidentified medical problem following his arrest. But a jail official said yesterday evening that he had been transferred to the jail.
According to the police affidavit, a Concord woman prompted the investigation into Joubert in March when she learned he was coaching in York, Maine, and sent the police there an email with concerns about Joubert. She told the police that Joubert had “had a relationship” with her own son when he was a juvenile, the affidavit said. It did not disclose the nature of the relationship.
The woman told the York police that Joubert had a history of “police investigations and restraining orders in relation to young boys,” according to the affidavit. She detailed several previous contacts Joubert had had with New Hampshire law enforcement.
“The claims were legitimate but fell short of a formal conviction,” she said in her email.
The York police notified the Concord police, who then began an investigation. “We learned from several independent persons that Robert Joubert had sexually abused and/or had inappropriate relationships with them, as juveniles,” Detective Sean Ford wrote in his arrest affidavit.
One of the alleged victims, now 19, said Joubert was his coach from 2001 to 2004, from the time he was 9 until he turned 12. He said that he and Joubert grew close after about a year and that Joubert began asking him for sexual favors, the affidavit said.
The alleged victim “stated that he was very young and knew nothing about sex, but that Joubert asked him ‘hundreds’ of times” to masturbate him, the affidavit said. The man told the police he gave Joubert “hand jobs” five to seven times over the course of two years.
Joubert told the alleged victim it was okay for “two men to do this to one another,” the affidavit said.
On one occasion, the alleged victim touched Joubert in the coach’s vehicle, at the Concord Litho field off Airport Road, the affidavit said. The man also described a similar incident at Pembroke’s Memorial Field during the same year. The two were the last people at baseball practice, the man said, and at one point he mentioned to Joubert that he needed a new baseball glove.
“Joubert responded that he would get (him) a new glove if he gave (Joubert) a hand job,” the affidavit said. The alleged victim did as Joubert asked, but Joubert never bought him the glove, the affidavit said.
On a third occasion, Joubert and the alleged victim were training one-on-one at baseball field in Henniker when the alleged victim said he had an itch on his backside. Joubert said he “knew how to make it feel better” and put his hands down the alleged victim’s pants and touched him, the affidavit said.
The police charged Joubert with one count of aggravated felonious sexual assault in that case, alleging that Joubert committed a pattern of sexual assault over a few years.
Joubert’s second accuser, now 29, told the police that Joubert assaulted him between 1995 and 1998. Joubert was living with the boy and his mother for part of that time, the affidavit said.
The police learned of the man’s name from another person, and until the police went to his home June 14, he hadn’t told anyone of the alleged assaults, the affidavit said.
During an interview with investigators, the man said Joubert was his baseball coach at the time. The affidavit also suggests Joubert was dating the alleged victim’s mother.
The man told the police he had touched Joubert sexually, at Joubert’s request, “two to five times a week, during a three- to four-year period,” the affidavit said. The man was between 8 and 12 at the time.
He described assaults at Joubert’s apartment on Jennings Drive, a home on Allison Street and at Joubert’s apartment on Manchester Street.
The police charged Joubert with three counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault and one of misdemeanor sexual assault for those alleged assaults.
The affidavit also describes a police interview with a third person who was allegedly sexually abused by Joubert. That person, whose age was not given, was abused in Weare around 1984 and 1986, the affidavit said. He was between 9 and 11 at the time.
The person told the police that he maintains a relationship with Joubert. The nature of the relationship was not clear in the affidavit, which had been redacted of accuser’s names and other identifying information. The police have not filed charges in that case.
Joubert was living with his parents in Manchester when he was arrested, and the Concord police searched that home Thursday, Lt. Tim O’Malley said. A woman at that home declined to speak with a reporter yesterday.
Messages left with Joubert’s friends and two sons, who are adults, were not returned yesterday. If Joubert does post bail, he is forbidden from having contact with the alleged victims, anyone under 18 and with his two sons. The reason for the last restriction was not clear yesterday.
Joubert’s sons did not return messages yesterday.
