Local Basketball Coach Pleads Guilty to Raping Teen Girl

A former Hampton-area coach has been sentenced to 3 to 8 years in state prison after pleading guilty in court to sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl while he was employed as a Portsmouth School District IT worker, according to Foster's Daily Democrat.

Kenneth Kimber, 35, a former Seacoast Spartans and True Champion coach, faced trial on a variety of charges.

Kimber was charged by Portsmouth police on Feb. 15 with three felony counts of certain uses of a computer prohibited and five felony counts of indecent exposure. The "predatory" coach used a Portsmouth school computer to lure a teen into having sex with him, police have said.

Kimber was arrested again in March and in April on many similar charges.

The guilty plea, entered in Rockingham Superior Court on Nov. 14, also includes 7 1/2 to 15 years worth of suspended jail time for Kimber, according to Foster's.

Kimber has served as a basketball coach and trainer for students from throughout the Hampton and greater Seacoast areas, and worked with local students while with the Spartans, Portsmouth Middle School, and True Champion in North Hampton, according to online records.

Kimber was in his first year as head coach of the boys' basketball team at Noble High School in Berwick, Maine, before he was fired due to the charges against him.



[Read the full Foster's Daily Democrat story here.]