(01/28/09 – Initial BadBadTeacher.com Report)
George Reid, 65, of Rochester, New Hampshire, and a former teacher in Rollinsford and Somersworth, a principal in Somersworth and a school superintendent in Rochester and Northwood has been convicted in a jury trial on four charges of sexually assaulting a girl when she was 6 and 7 years old.
Reid was originally charged with five counts of sexually assaulting the girl between Sept. 1, 2003, and May 6, 2004, but one of those charges was dropped following the girl’s testimony in court. The sexual abuse was alleged to have occurred in a hot tub and in the bed in which the girl slept when “staying over” with Reid.
After the jury returned with the guilty verdict, Reid’s lawyer, Mark Sisti, said that the trial was “tragic” and that he will likely appeal the conviction.
Sisti said he doesn’t believe Reid is mentally capable of comprehending the charges against him and had early on in the trial Sisti contended that Reid had no appreciation of the charges against him.
Following his conviction Reid was taken into custody and is currently being held in the county jail awaiting sentencing which will likely take place within two months.
03/19/09 – Sentencing
George Reid has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for sexually assaulting a young girl.
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