The man’s attorney argues that such a conviction poses a dilemma, say, for parents who provide shelter to an addicted adult child.
Betty Adams
Betty Adams is a general assignment reporter who’s lived in Augusta for the past 35 years and been working for the Kennebec Journal for more than two decades. She covers the courts plus the towns of Belgrade, Fayette and Readfield.
As adjunct instructor Elizabeth Adams, she teaches writing courses, including journalism, at the University of Maine at Augusta.
In her spare time, when she’s not playing with the grandchildren, bicycling on the rail trail, snowshoeing or cross-country skiing, she likes to travel both in the United States and abroad via cruise ship and occasionally on the back of a motorcycle.
She is a graduate of the Pennsylvania State University and earned a master’s of journalism from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.
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Police raid in Sidney leads to charges against 3 people
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Fired Waterville principal Donald Reiter surrenders teaching certificate
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‘Savage’ denies charges related to Old Orchard Beach arrest
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Maine’s highest court hears Sidney man’s appeal in child sex assault case
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Six arrested after Chelsea stabbing make court appearances
The defendants include the victim.
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Judge James Mitchell, who helped mentor attorneys, dies at 74
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Oral arguments set in appeal of 2014 sex assault case
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