FARMINGTON — The state’s high court Thursday upheld a lower court’s decision to vacate a 2014 conviction of a Madrid Township man on a felony charge of sexual abuse of a minor. John Fahnley, 63, was found guilty by a Franklin County jury in 2014. The jury acquitted him of felony gross sexual assault and a […]
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Law Court to hear state appeal in vacated sexual abuse conviction
FARMINGTON — The Maine Supreme Judicial Court will hear oral arguments Tuesday, June 12, in the state’s appeal of a ruling that overturned a Madrid Township man’s conviction of sexual abuse of a minor. Arguments are scheduled for 10:40 am. at the Capital Judicial Center in Augusta. A Franklin County jury found John Fahnley, 63, […]
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Madrid Township man to serve three years in prison in sex abuse case
AUGUSTA — Justice Nancy Mills on Monday ordered a Madrid Township man to serve three years of a five-year sentence for sexually abusing a teenage boy. John A. Fahnley, 59, was sentenced in Kennebec County Superior Court in Augusta. The conviction carried a penalty of up to five years in prison. He will serve two […]
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Convicted sex offender faces new charge for courtroom comment
FARMINGTON — A Madrid Township man faces a new felony charge for a comment he made to a victim and his family after a Franklin County jury found him guilty Friday of sexually abusing a minor. John A. Fahnley, 59, was walking toward the doors to leave the Franklin County Superior Courtroom in handcuffs with […]
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Franklin County jury finds Madrid Township man guilty of sexually abusing teen
FARMINGTON — A Franklin County Superior Court jury found a Madrid Township man guilty Friday of sexually abusing a teenage boy in 2008. John A. Fahnley, 59, also was found not guilty of sexually assaulting the boy in 2008 and not guilty of sexually abusing him in 2009. The incidents occurred at Fahnley’s home, according […]
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Jury deliberations continue in Farmington trial
FARMINGTON — A Franklin County jury will continue its deliberations Friday in the case of a Madrid Township man accused of sexually assaulting and sexually abusing a teenage boy from Massachusetts in 2008 and 2009. Justice Nancy Mills sent the jury home Thursday afternoon after it met for six hours without reaching verdicts in the […]
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Madrid Township man’s sexual assault trial to continue Thursday
FARMINGTON — The trial of a Madrid Township man accused of sexually assaulting and abusing a teenage boy in 2008 and 2009 began Wednesday morning in Franklin County Superior Court. John A. Fahnley, 59, was indicted in 2013 on one felony count of gross sexual assault and two felony counts of sexual abuse of a […]