{"id":21236,"date":"2002-05-29T15:36:19","date_gmt":"2002-05-29T20:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=21236"},"modified":"2017-03-02T10:30:08","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T15:30:08","slug":"assault-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2002\/05\/29\/assault-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrest made in April 5 sexual assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Community Members,<\/p>\n<p>Late Tuesday evening, May 28, 2002, the Lewiston Police announced the arrest of a suspect in the sexual assault of a Bates student in Pettengill Hall on April 5, 2002. The suspect is jailed and charged with gross sexual assault.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The person arrested is 21 years old and a resident of Sabattus, Maine. Lieutenant Tom Avery of the Lewiston Police Department indicated that individual arrested was unknown to the victim and &#8220;has no connection to the school.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We wish to extend our appreciation to the Police Department, to Detective Brian O&#8217;Malley who has led the investigation, and to District Attorney Norman Croteau for their efforts to identify and to pursue under the law the prosecution of the assailant.<\/p>\n<p>We offer our continued support to the student, her friends, and her family.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<br \/>\nDean Celeste Branham<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late Tuesday evening, May 28, 2002, the Lewiston Police announced the arrest of a suspect in the sexual assault of a Bates student in Pettengill Hall on April 5, 2002. The suspect is jailed and charged with gross sexual assault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[14,17,11012],"tags":[11089],"class_list":["post-21236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-staff","category-partners-public","category-student-life","tag-public-health-and-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92666,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21236\/revisions\/92666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}