Conviction Reversed on Appeal Benjamin H. Hodgdon II, Bass Harbor, Maine (arrested Jan 2014) [gross sexual assault of girl, 13]

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  1. TMP

    TMP Himself

    He was convicted in 2016, but as of April, 2021, all 3 convictions have been vacated -- new trial? or charges dismissed?


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    Benjamin H. Hodgdon II, 45, former 6th-grade teacher & cross country coach at Tremont Consolidated School, Mount Desert Island Regional School System - AOS #91, Bass Harbor, Maine, "charged with gross sexual assault"

    WCSH 6: Former Tremont teacher charged with 1999 incident (Jan 9 2014)

    Prosecutors say the assault happened more than a decade ago when the alleged victim was only 13. Her teacher, more than twice her age. Police arrested Ben Hodgdon last Friday charging him with one count of gross sexual assault of a minor under 14. According to a police affidavit, back in 1999, the former teacher had sex more than 30 times with a student. Years later, police say the alleged victim came forward. Ben Hodgdon was a teacher and track coach at Tremont Consolidation School. In a police affidavit, Hodgdon admits to investigators he did cross the line with his former student.

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    Superintendent Howard Colter with AOS 91 admits there were suspicions ...

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    Benjamin H. Hodgdon II, Bass Harbor, Maine, Tremont Consolidated School, Mount Desert Island Regional School System - AOS #91
  2. TMP

    TMP Himself

    Bangor Daily News: Former MDI teacher charged with sexually assaulting student (Jan 9 2014)

    Benjamin H. Hodgdon II, 45, is accused of sexually assaulting a student “30 to 40 times” in 1999 and 2000, according to an affidavit and request for an arrest warrant filed last week in Hancock County Superior Court. The girl was 13 and in eighth grade at Tremont Consolidated School when the alleged assaults started in late summer or early fall of 1999, according to the document.

    Hodgdon, who was 31 years old at the time, had been the girl’s sixth-grade teacher and was her cross-country coach at the time, the affidavit indicates. The alleged assaults stopped when the girl entered high school in the fall of 2000, when she was 14, the affidavit states. The BDN is not identifying the girl because she is considered the victim of sexual assault.

    In the document, Detective Stephen McFarland of the Hancock County district attorney’s office wrote that, when he interviewed Hodgdon about the allegations last November, Hodgdon acknowledged assaulting the girl when she was on the cross country team he coached. Hodgdon also told McFarland he had assaulted another girl who was going into her senior year of high school, but the affidavit does not indicate when.

    Also according to the affidavit, the alleged victim used her cellphone to record a video conversation she had with Hodgdon in his truck in September 2012, when she was 26 years old. McFarland said that he watched the recording, could see Hodgdon in it and could hear him saying, “I cared for you” and “please don’t do that” when she threatened to tell police about the alleged assaults.

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  3. News Readers

    News Readers The Paperboy

    Former MDI Teacher, Coach Indicted on Sex Charges Against Student

    11 April 2014


    Former teacher and cross country coach at Tremont Consolidated School has been indicted for sex crimes against a minor more than a decade ago. Prosecutors say Benjamin Hodgdon, 45, had sex with a 13-year-old member of the cross country team more than thirty times in 1999. He was 31 at the time. He’s been formally charged with four counts of gross sexual assault, two counts of sex abuse of a minor, and two counts of unlawful sexual contact. He’s free on bail and is scheduled for court in May.


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    http://wabi.tv/2014/04/11/former-mdi-teacher-coach-indicted-sex-charges-student/


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  4. News Readers

    News Readers The Paperboy

    Former Tremont teacher convicted of sexual assault gets support from Maine’s highest court in efforts to get new trial

    A former teacher and coach at Tremont Consolidated School found guilty of sexually abusing a minor will either get a new trial or have his case dismissed. The Maine Supreme Court Thursday vacated a gross sexual assault count against Benjamin Hodgdon. He was convicted of that and two other counts in 2016. All of the charges involving a female student allegedly occurred in 1999 and 2000. During a hearing in 2019, Hodgdon claimed evidence and witnesses were tampered with and accusations made during closing arguments were not true. He also believes his attorney poorly represented him. Last year the high ...


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    https://www.wabi.tv/2021/04/16/form...es-highest-court-in-efforts-to-get-new-trial/

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