NEW HIRES Stephanie LeBlanc has joined Maine Behavioral Healthcare, a part of the MaineHealth system, as senior director of behavioral health systems and integrated services. For the past nine years, she served as executive director of Oxford County Mental Health Services, where she devoted much of her time to working with schools and law enforcement […]
NEW HIRES Tom Womersley has joined KeyBank as a senior middle market relationship manager on the Maine Commercial Banking team. He comes to KeyBank after working for five years as a senior vice president with the Jefferies Group, a New York investment bank. He previously served for 10 years in various investment banking roles at […]
AUGUSTA On April 15, the Maine Supreme Court, citing ineffective counsel, vacated a gross sexual assault conviction against a former Tremont Consolidated School teacher accused of sexually assaulting a student.
That was the last remaining conviction for Ben Hodgdon, 53, of Tremont, who spent three years in prison after being found guilty of three charges. Hodgdon was released last summer.
Two other convictions, one for unlawful sexual contact and the other for sexual abuse of a minor, were vacated by the court in March of 2020, after Hodgdon’s petition that he had ineffective counsel.
“I feel pretty good about it,” Hodgdon said Friday. “I know there’s the potential for charges to be brought again, but it really does feel good.”
Former Tremont teacherâs sexual assault conviction vacated
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The Maine Supreme Court on April 15, citing ineffective counsel, vacated a gross sexual assault conviction against a former Tremont Consolidated School teacher accused of sexually assaulting a student.
That was the last remaining conviction for Ben Hodgdon, 53, of Tremont, who spent three years in prison after being found guilty of three charges. Hodgdon was released last summer.
Two other convictions, one for unlawful sexual contact and the other for sexual abuse of a minor, were vacated by the court in March of 2020, after Hodgdon’s petition that he had ineffective counsel.
Federal lawsuit claims abuse, denial of treatment at Maine youth detention center
The lawsuit is the latest alleging mistreatment at what is now the Long Creek Youth Development Center in South Portland.
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A Maine man has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the Department of Corrections and more than a dozen individuals alleging abuse and “deliberate denial” of treatment while he was confined in the state’s youth detention center.
In the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court this week, the plaintiff claims he was subjected to excessive isolation, restraint and force as well as sexual assault over a span of six years while intermittently held at the Maine Youth Center in South Portland. He also alleges he was deliberately denied “adequate rehabilitative treatment” for his severe attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and denied “his right to an appropriate education.”