A former head coach of both the Vancouver Whitecaps women’s team and Canadian under-20 women’s soccer team has pleaded guilty to three counts of sexual assault and one count of touching a young person for a sexual purpose.
Bob Birarda entered guilty pleas in court in North Vancouver, B.C., on Tuesday morning to charges spanning from 1988 to 2006, involving four separate victims.
Birarda appeared through a video link from his lawyer’s downtown office and sat with his hands clasped together as a judge read each of the four charges to him.
“I plead guilty, your honour,” Birarda said in response to the
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