Post by WaTcHeR on Jun 23, 2006 14:38:06 GMT -5
AUGUSTA, Maine -- A jury has returned a not-guilty verdict against a former Waterville police officer who was charged with sexually abusing a teenage girl he and his wife had taken in to live with them.
Andrew York, 32, had been charged with three counts of gross sexual assault. When the Kennebec County Superior Court jury returned the verdict, family members and supporters erupted into wild shouting and wailing in the courtroom.
The alleged victim said the incidents occurred last year when she was 14 and 15. She had come to stay with the York family in 2004 when her mother went out of state to work.
York's attorney, Walter McKee, said the case came down to which person the jury believed -- the girl or the officer.
After the allegations surfaced last summer, York was suspended with pay from the police department. He resigned his post in August.
www.wmtw.com/news/9415843/detail.html
Andrew York, 32, had been charged with three counts of gross sexual assault. When the Kennebec County Superior Court jury returned the verdict, family members and supporters erupted into wild shouting and wailing in the courtroom.
The alleged victim said the incidents occurred last year when she was 14 and 15. She had come to stay with the York family in 2004 when her mother went out of state to work.
York's attorney, Walter McKee, said the case came down to which person the jury believed -- the girl or the officer.
After the allegations surfaced last summer, York was suspended with pay from the police department. He resigned his post in August.
www.wmtw.com/news/9415843/detail.html