Green Bay tennis coach charged with child enticement, sexual exploitation

Kelli Arseneau, Green Bay Press-Gazette
Updated ·1 min read

Editor's note: This story has been updated with information from the criminal complaint. Some readers may find the description disturbing.

A 40-year-old Green Bay tennis coach was arrested Thursday on suspicion of child enticement, according to the Brown County Sheriff's Office.

Joshua Denault of Green Bay was charged Friday with four felonies: capturing an intimate representation, child enticement, causing mental harm to a child and child sexual exploitation.

Denault was an employee at Western Racquet & Fitness Club, 2500 S. Ashland Ave., Ashwaubenon. He was fired after a sheriff's office investigator informed the club on May 14 of a reported incident that took place the previous week, according the Western Racquet & Fitness Club.

The Brown County Sheriff's Office on Friday issued a statement about "potentially inappropriate conduct by an area tennis coach," saying there is an ongoing investigation "involving a growing number of young victims."

According to the criminal complaint:

  • Deputies responded to a complaint on May 7 that a young girl was "victimized by her tennis coach" at practice at Four Seasons Tennis Club, 3600 Riverside Drive, Allouez. (Four Seasons is associated with Western Racquet.)

  • Denault is accused of pulling the girl into a closet and recording her standing over his phone with her legs apart during practice on May 6. After practice, the girl told her father that she no longer wanted to go to tennis practice.

  • Investigators searched Denault's phone and said it had other videos of young girls standing over his cellphone. They found 36 videos in his "recently deleted" file on his phone.

  • His phone also contained several other videos of an apparent unconscious woman being sexually assaulted by Denault.

The sheriff's office requests anyone with information related to the case to contact Sgt. Matthew Wilson at 920-448-6192 or matthew.wilson@browncountywi.gov.

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This article originally appeared on Appleton Post-Crescent: Green Bay-area tennis coach faces possible child enticement charge