The trial begins for the man accused of assaulting him on the girl at Augusta home

Augusta – a man Jay is sued this week for accusations that he has sexually abused a girl at his house in Augusta for a few years, starting when he was 6 years old.

Kenneth D. Marin, 61, is accused of a sexually assaulted girl whose mother became friends when the girl was between 6 and 11 years old. Prosecutors say that the girl, who was friends with Marin’s nephew, considered Marin as a grandfather for her, and the two children often came to spend the night at Augusta’s house in Togus Pond.

The girl, in a video interview played in court on Monday, said Marin had reached her inappropriately and sexually assaulted her countless times in 2012-18, including going on her while taking a shower in her house and forcing her and facing her back when she was sitting on a chair.

“This happened almost every time I went to bed,” at Marin’s house, said the girl in the video with Samantha Marquis, a forensic interviewer for the children’s Advocacy Center in Kennebec and Somerset counties. “I felt, as it would be, which is what scared. He would be that, it is a very natural thing. I was, as if, I do not want, however, I am like 7. “

Marin’s lawyer, Darick Banda, claimed that Marin’s nephew had seen any abuse of Marin because he was almost always with them when the girl stayed at Marin’s house.

The boy told Marquis in an interview registered in court on Monday that he was at Marin’s house, when Marin received an appeal from the State Department for Health and Human Services. When he got off the phone, Marin told the boy that the girl accused Marin of touching her.

The boy said that his grandfather told him that no way could have happened without the boy seeing anything. The boy said in the video that he did not see any inappropriate activity by Marin towards the girl. He said that the girl was at any time, he was there too, except a time he went there.

“They said he was accused of touching a girl, whom I have never seen, I am always right next to them,” said the boy in the video. Marin “told me, there is no possible way to happen, without me seeing it,” said the boy.

Marin was charged with a big jury last year for three charges of gross sexual assaultTwo matters each illegal sexual contact and illegal sexual touch and a manipulation number with a witness or informant.

The accusations were investigated and brought by the Augusta Police Department.

Deputy District Lawyer, Shannon Flaherty, said in his opening statement to the jury that Marin sexually assaulted the girl in his basement, the bath and the VW utility, and will do so, continuously. He would take the girl on trips with his nephew, who was about the same age. They also spend time, including overnight, at home, which was under renovation and had only a sheet that could be thrown to provide any privacy for anyone using the bathroom. She said even when the curtain was down, Marin will follow the girl in the bathroom and look at her.

Flaherty said that the girl did not show up with the accusations so long because she cared about Marin, and he told him if she would tell someone about what they were doing, she will have problems and she can lose her job.

Finally, the girl told a friend what happened after a teacher from a sixth grade health talked about sexual assaults. At the urging of her friend, the girl told her mother, who reported it to the authorities.

The band said that the girl made the accusations after Marin stopped taking her on trips and paying things for her.

The process of the Jury from Capital Center is scheduled to continue on Friday.