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Before the eight women and four men on the Victor Malavet jury started deliberations in the state’s first Sununu Youth Services Center child abuse scandal criminal trial, Assistant Attorney General Meghan Hagaman made sure they knew what this case is about.
KITTERY, Maine – Maine State Police stressed at an afternoon news conference that an eight-year-old child found dead in the back of a car near where police officers engaged in a fatal shooting early Thursday was not shot by police.
A man suspected of killing a woman in Troy overnight was fatally shot by police 100 miles away with a child’s body found in his car after an encounter on the Piscataqua River Bridge at the Portsmouth and Kittery, Maine state line Thursday.
Lawyers for Victor Malavet, the former Youth Detention Services Unit staffer accused of sexual assault, spent Wednesday walking into errors as they tried to discredit accuser Natasha Maunsell.
Natasha Maunsell entered the Merrimack Superior Court Tuesday, swore an oath to tell the truth, and then re-lived her past of alleged sexual abuse as a teen locked up in a state facility.
Attorney General John M. Formella announces that the New Hampshire Department of Justice is asking for the public to share any information they might have about the 2020 Labor Day weekend homicide of Michael Kenneth Mowry III, age 19, of Rochester, New Hampshire.
The state’s first criminal trial against alleged YDC scandal abuser Victor Malavet got underway Monday in Merrimack Superior Court with his defense team declaring his innocence and accusing the then-15-year-old girl of trying to cash in.
Victor Malavet went from being investigated at his state job for allegedly abusing a teen girl to working as a police officer, and then a safety officer at two different New Hampshire college campuses.
New Hampshire Department of Corrections administrators kept a corrections officer accused of assaulting multiple inmates on duty while she was under investigation, according to a DOC insider with knowledge of the department.