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Man denies failing to check in to sex registry

By "eAdvocate"

2-5-2011 Maine: An Island Falls man facing state charges of unlawful sexual contact pleaded not guilty Thursday in U.S. District Court to a charge of failing to register as a sex offender after moving to Maine in 2009. ___, 36, was required to register as a sex offender because of a 1996 sex offense in Connecticut, according to the indictment handed up Jan. 12 by a federal grand jury in Bangor. Because he has been unable to make the $1,000 bail set on the state charge, bail was not set Thursday on the federal charge. Goguen also has pleaded not guilty to the state charge. He allegedly had sexual contact with a minor under the age of 12 on July 28 in Patten, according to the Penobscot County District Attorney?s Office. He is scheduled to appear next week at the Penobscot Judicial Center on the Class B charge of unlawful sexual contact...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies on February 05, 2011 (boomark / email).