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By BETTY ADAMS
Staff Writer
AUGUSTA -- A former Monmouth Academy teacher will remain behind bars for at least a week after his arrest early Tuesday in the driveway of the home of the girl he is accused of molesting.
Christopher I. Dumaine, 39, of Readfield was arrested at 4:15 a.m. Tuesday and charged with violating bail conditions by having contact with the girl.
Maine State Police, who had Dumaine under surveillance, said Dumaine drove to and from his home late Monday night or early Tuesday, then got into his car with the young girl early Tuesday and drove to her driveway.
He had been out on $500 cash bail since Oct. 11, when he pleaded not guilty to two charges each of gross sexual assault and unlawful sexual contact. A condition of bail banned him from contact with the 16-year-old girl, who was one of Dumaine's students. She is the same victim listed in all charges.
On Wednesday, Dumaine told a judge via video link from the Kennebec County jail that he understood the new charge of violating a condition of bail.
District Court Judge David Kennedy said he would not request a plea since this was an initial appearance on the alleged bail violation, a felony offense.
Dumaine's attorney, Walter McKee, said he and prosecutors agreed Dumaine would be held without bail with the right to request a bail hearing at a later date.
Kennedy set a review hearing in Kennebec County Superior Court for 8:30 a.m. Jan. 8. However, District Attorney Evert Fowle he expected Dumaine to return to court in a week or so to ask for a bail hearing.
At that time, he said, prosecutors would pursue a motion, filed Tuesday, to revoke Dumaine's bail.
The parents of the girl named as a victim in both complaints watched Wednesday's proceedings in Augusta District Court.
They declined to be interviewed, saying through a spokeswoman they want to protect their daughter's privacy. They and their friends winced visibly when the girl's name was read aloud in court.
The Kennebec Journal does not publish the names of victims of alleged sexual abuse.
The judge permitted a television camera in court, but limited it to showing the video screen on which the defendant could be seen wearing an orange, jail-issued uniform.
Dumaine was a teacher at Monmouth Academy for 16 years until submitting a one-line resignation letter in September.
The indictment listing sexual assault charges says the offenses occurred between June 1 and Sept. 14.
Betty Adams -- 621-5631
badams@centralmaine.com
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I can almost picture James Spader doing one of his notorious Alan Shore character's closing arguments pointing out that had Mr. Dumaine been a butcher, baker or candle stick maker then there would be no criminal culpable state of mind or liability in this matter and that he'd be a free man.
But because he's not in strict compliance to the political will of legislature, the Statist wish to make him a political prisoner as an example to the rest of those other privileged occupational persons to abide by the terms and conditions of their contracts or else face the Draconian consequences of not doing so.report abuse
Here's where the Statist define unlawful sexual contact:
http://janus.state.me.us/legis/statutes/17-a/title17-Asec255-A.html
Pay particular attention to item 1. definitions S and T.
It's still looks as though Mr. Dumaine's problem is an issue of contract and it appears that the law merchant may be at play in this matter.
http://deoxy.org/lawenfor.htm
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Let's see, he's been charged with two charges of gross sexual assault and two charges of unlawful sexual contact and Assistant District Attorney Paul Rucha, the prosecutor at the arraignment, said the alleged victim was 16.
So I guess people are going to have to get the exact section of the statutory law that he has been charged under by the Statist in this matter in order to determine just how supposedly illegal it was to diddle with this little 16 year old.
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