BOSTON -- A one-time professional hockey scout and former assistant college hockey coach faced charges of child rape in Suffolk Superior Court on Monday.

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Newscenter 5's Gail Huff reported that the accusations against Bob Richardson, 49, date back to incidents that allegedly took place nearly five years ago.

Richardson coached hundreds of children and college students at Milton Academy, Boston University, Yale University and Northeastern University, and is very well-known in coaching circles.

Richardson was charged with sexually assaulting one child during a hockey camp at B.U. in 1998 and 1999, and Monday he answered to a long list of charges that included five counts of rape of a child and two counts of assault and battery on a child.

"He (the alleged victim) went back to his room to wait for his parents to come get him. That's when the allegations are that the defendant came into his dorm room and the first sexual encounter happened," prosecutor Glenn Cunha said. The alleged victim would have been 14 at the time of the first alleged attack.

After camp ended, Richardson allegedly kept in touch with the boy and promised to bring him to hockey games.

"And there were times when they went to his apartment in Dorchester. Some sexual acts happened during those times," Cunha said.

Richardson left the courtroom without talking to reporters. His attorney said they are fighting the charges.

"There are plenty of people out there who worked the camps who can tell us what happened, how it happened. It is our position that none of this happened, could have happened, or did happen," Richardson's attorney Robert George said.

Richardson was released on personal recognizance and will be back in court in the next couple of months. The alleged victim, now 19-years-old, was not in court on Monday.

Richardson's most recent position was as a varsity girls hockey coach at Milton Academy. The administration said they were happy with his coaching and never had any complaints or problems with him.