MARBLEHEAD, Mass. (AP) — A youth hockey coach from Massachusetts has been charged with sexually assaulting a 9-year-old boy.
Christopher Prew, 31, of Marblehead, was indicted Monday on charges of aggravated rape and indecent assault and battery on a child. He pleaded not guilty after his arrest last week.
He is being held without bail at the request of the Essex district attorney’s office pending a hearing Wednesday to determine whether he is a danger to society.
Prew’s sister called the allegations ‘‘completely false.’’
His attorney, Sean Donahue, said in a statement that his client is ‘‘devastated by these alarming accusations,’’ and had until recently been ‘‘intimately involved’’ with the boy’s mother.