Former youth baseball coach in Montreal found guilty of sexual assault – Montreal [Video]

A Quebec Superior Court judge has found a former West Island baseball coach guilty of sexual interference and sexual assault of a 13-year-old boy.

Josée Bélanger ruled Friday that Robert Litvack violated the teen’s integrity.

Litvack was accused of massaging the boy’s legs and exposed buttocks without parental consent. The 13-year-old, whose identity is protected, felt uncomfortable and eventually told his parents.

Litvack’s defence lawyer argued that the massages were to relieve muscle pain in the legs and Litvack had testified that the massages weren’t “a big deal.”

But Bélanger didn’t agree, saying the accused never had the parents’ consent and that Litvack wasn’t a massage therapist.

”The fact that he did not tell the parents about what was going on and the nature of the touching itself, given all the circumstances in the case, she concluded that there was a sexual purpose to the touching,” Crown prosecutor Camille Boucher told reporters Friday after the guilty verdict was handed down.