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According to the statement, Dubroy was dismissed from QCGC in 2014 for reasons unrelated to the current suspension. For confidentiality reasons, a QCGC spokesperson said the club could not disclose the reasons for that dismissal.

Photo by Roy Antal / Regina Leader-Post

Regina police first received the report of an alleged sexual assault in November, via the Ottawa Police Service, which was the agency that took the original report. The complainant, now a 30-year-old woman, alleged her gymnastics coach had committed sexual offences against her between Jan. 1, 2002 and April 30, 2008. Both Dubroy and the then-teenaged gymnast lived in Regina at the time of the alleged offences.

When Dubroy was interviewed by the RPS, he was residing in Smithers and still coaching young athletes. In February 2016, a Smithers newspaper ran a story about Dubroy returning to the club where he first started coaching. It mentions that Dubroy coached in Toronto and Vancouver in addition to Regina, where he was the long-time head coach at QCGC (formerly Queen City Kinsmen, or QCK Gymnastics).

As a result of their investigation, Regina police officers requested a warrant for Dubroy’s arrest. He was arrested without incident and subsequently charged.

“The alleged offences are the result of the position of authority and trust held by the accused over the alleged victim during the years that he was her gymnastics coach, living and working in Regina,” police said in the release.

While it is not common practice, “the access to numerous young persons by virtue of a coaching position, combined with the nature of the alleged offences” prompted the RPS to release information about the occupation of the accused.