She had no criminal record when she was charged in October 2016 with indecent liberties with a child, two counts of statutory rape of a child, and two counts of sex offense with a child. She accepted an Alford plea, meaning she pleaded guilty without admitting to wrongdoing, to two misdemeanor counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor and was sentenced to a year of unsupervised probation with the condition that she have no contact with the victim or his family.
The victim was a friend of her daughter's. He fell asleep on their couch and woke to Gwendolyn touching him, and they had another encounter just before his 16th birthday.
I'm not sure how they all ended up in Family Court, but that's when he was able go give testimony about those incidents. He's 19 now and had spent most of the intervening time out of state leading to delays. He came to town but didn't appear at Monday's sentencing, and he did not object to the sentence.
Her defense lawyer claimed she was having marital and financial problems at that time and "regretted any consequences the victim suffered from how he interpreted what happened between them."
The victim was a friend of her daughter's. He fell asleep on their couch and woke to Gwendolyn touching him, and they had another encounter just before his 16th birthday.
I'm not sure how they all ended up in Family Court, but that's when he was able go give testimony about those incidents. He's 19 now and had spent most of the intervening time out of state leading to delays. He came to town but didn't appear at Monday's sentencing, and he did not object to the sentence.
Her defense lawyer claimed she was having marital and financial problems at that time and "regretted any consequences the victim suffered from how he interpreted what happened between them."
Woman gets probation in statutory rape case
Gwendolyn Rae Cloutier, 47, to serve a year's probation in case involving sex acts with a 15-year-old
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