Lowell Man Sentenced for Indecent Assault of Child at Chelmsford Camp

CHELMSFORD, MA - The Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday that a Lowell man will serve three to five years in jail on charges related to the 2002 sexual assault of a child at a Chelmsford camp.

William Noble, 50, pleaded guilty to three counts of indecent assault and battery on a person under the age of 14 and one count of assault with intent to rape a child, according to Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan.

In August 2002, the victim, a 12-year-old boy attended a camp in Chelmsford where Noble was serving as a Boy Scout volunteer. Noble was instructing scouts on Native American heritage when he took the victim into a teepee and touched him inappropriately. Later that year, according to the district attorney, the victim spent the night in a guest room at Noble’s residence. In the middle of the night, Noble entered the victim’s room and groped him before then spending the rest of the night sleeping next to the child.

“The defendant in this case used his position as a volunteer with the Boy Scouts to sexually victimize a child,” stated District Attorney Marian Ryan. “His actions were a terrible violation of the trust placed in him by the victim and the victim’s parents.”

Noble’s sentence in this case will be served from and after the six-year federal sentence he is currently serving related to a 2012 conviction on child pornography charges. His sentence had been due to end in March 2018.