Posted on 11/05/2009 8:25:10 AM PST by fight_truth_decay
AUGUSTA -- A Waterville man will spend 45 months behind bars for molesting two girls: one over a period of years beginning in 2004, in Norridgewock; the other Nov. 29, 2008, in Waterville. Raymond H. Goghan, 43, was sentenced Tuesday in Kennebec County Superior Court on three separate charges of unlawful sexual contact. Two charges were from Kennebec County and the other from Somerset County.
The judge imposed a longer initial period of imprisonment than recommended by attorneys after hearing from the victims in court.
Deputy District Attorney Alan Kelley told Justice Nancy Mills the Norridgewock charge arose as police were investigating the complaint in Waterville.
Kelley and Goghan's attorney, Charles T. Ferris, supported a sentence of eight years in prison, with all but three suspended, and five years' probation.
One of the girls was a victim in Norridgewock and again, later, in Waterville. She was younger than 12 when the abuse began, Kelley told the judge.
The newspaper's policy is not to publish information identifying victims of sexual abuse.
Her mother told the judge her daughter "was hurt mentally, emotionally and physically."
The girl's grandmother read the girl's statement for her as she and four other young girls sobbed in the back of the courtroom.
The victim wrote she remains scared Goghan will get out of jail and come after her.
"He disgusts me and creeps me out," she said.
The second victim said, "He affected me a lot and he hurt me a lot."
Goghan apologized for his actions.
"I'm very ashamed of what I've done," he said, adding he tried to get counseling once he was charged with the crimes. "I've ruined some kids' lives. It won't happen ever again. I will make sure it."
Conditions of probation require Goghan to attend sex offender counseling; ban him from contact with the two victims and a younger sister of one of them; and ban him from the workplaces of some of the adults.
He also is barred from unsupervised contact with girls younger than 16 and ordered to pay up to $3,500 to cover unreimbursed costs of counseling for the victims.
Betty Adams -- 621-5631
badams@centralmaine.com
In all 50 states — there are an estimated 674,000 registered sex offenders across the country reported overwhelming to local police departments and, at times, to the public, who may not easily distinguish between those who must register because they have repeatedly raped children and those convicted of nonviolent or less serious crimes, like exposing themselves in public."
" 100,000 former offenders nationally who fail to register, give false addresses or disappear."
"New rules in many states have barred offenders from living near schools, parks and bus stops, and that has led some offenders, unable to find other alternatives that meet the rules, to live in rural areas, in their cars and, in at least one case in Florida, under a bridge."
$7.5 million in federal stimulus money is being offered to help homeless sex offenders and predators living under the Julia Tuttle Causeway [Miami-Dade bridge]"sex offender camps" to cover rent, housing and utilities. From a high of about 100 a few months ago, 49 remain in cardboard boxes and rusty cars in the sandy, bug-infested underpass. Some of them are still unwilling to leave.
Some authorities have extensive contact with their registered offenders (Illinois has special monitors who follow those deemed most dangerous for life, looking for even subtle signs of crimes); but in other states little time may be spent with sex offenders once they have filed an address.
Under 12 when it started.
I know the best way to make sure it can't happen again!
Ashamed he got caught. And I am guessing his lawyer suggested he get counseling to make it look better. As for it never happening again, don't they all say that?
“It won’t happen ever again. I will make sure it.”
Only one way to ensure that this sick creep never hurts another child. As a father of two girls and step-father (to be) of another....I’d happily pull the trigger myself.
I’m with you. I’m a step-father and my first is on the way. Once shot each?
What is wrong with the courts up there? 45 MONTHS instead of 45 YEARS? He will be out in plenty of time to offend again, and screw up some other little girls’ lives. Hey, people of Maine, your government is not protecting your families. Hopefully, someone in the Maine prison system will take care of this guy in a way that prevents him from committing any additional offenses.
quite a contrast to the Saudi method of dealing with such things - from reuters:
RIYADH (Reuters) - A Saudi court of cassation upheld a ruling to behead and crucify a 22-year-old man convicted of raping five children and leaving one of them to die in the desert, newspapers reported on Tuesday.
http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-43639120091103
Hopefully he will get that group therapy(beat down) counseling in jail. The short sentence only makes this man more dangerous the next time he has the urge to commit this offense, there may not be a live witness next time.
Put him with the general population and it probably won’t.
Precisely my thoughts as well.
Likely the perp was a satan worshiper, likewise the judge who gave him the light sentence. There are a lot more of these folks around than you think, and they protect each other.
“Once shot each?”
One in the head, one in the....
Yep. Remove his feet. About an inch below the chin.
There ya go.
and just who is going to monitor this??? Oh, the same ones who keep track of illegals I supose.
and over 16 is OK?
We have just got to do a better job of keeping up with how the Judges rule, and vote them out accordingly.
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