The Burlington Free Press from Burlington, Vermont • Page 17

Th Burlington (Vt.l Free Presi, Tuesday, August 2, 1988 5B Man denies charge of lewd conduct i 't 7 A Shelburne man denied in Vermont District Court Monday a charge of lewd and lascivious conduct with a teen-age boy in Burlington Sunday. Police said they were called by a passer-by who said he saw Eugene F. Lovejoy, 47, fondling a boy in the woods near Rock Point in Burlington shortly after 2:30 p.m. Sunday. Police later discovered Lovejoy and the boy just north of Texaco Beach.

Police arrested Lovejoy after a National Crime Information Center check indicated that Lovejoy was wanted in New Hampshire as a fugitive from justice. The boy said Sunday at North Beach that Lovejoy, whom he had known about one month, asked him if he wanted to walk to the Grand Union on North Avenue, according to a police affidavit. The boy agreed and the two headed north on the beach. When the two reached an area marked "No Trespassing," the boy said he didn't want to continue, but Lovejoy allegedly pulled him by the arm along a wooded path. The boy told police Lovejoy stopped slightly off the path on a rocky ledge near a cliff and began fondling him after saying, "I want to do something to you and if you don't, I will throw you off a ledge." Lovejoy ran off when he saw someone approaching, police said.

The boy went back to the beach and Lovejoy later reappeared and sat near him. Police found the two still sitting on the beach. Lovejoy was convicted of sexual assault on a pre-teen boy in 1981 and sentenced to six to 12 years. He was released in September 1983 when a judge ruled he was inadequately represented at his trial, and never retried because the victim did not want to go through a second trial. Lovejoy also was sentenced to three to four months in August 1986 for prohibited acts and convicted in 1972 on two first-degree arsons.

I I Tit Ft is- i i Police search for man Lake Willoughby ADAM RIESNER, free Press In business 'It's a great way to make extra says 14-year-old Gary Pasquale, as he and his brother Angelo, both of Burlington, haul hundreds of cans and bottles to a beverage store for redemption. time to be in the water," Maynard said. Police, acting on a tip, have concentrated their search on Lake Willoughby. Number of children in foster care drops dren when you can do it re- amount of money these place- away Youth Services, a non-profit show with these numbers is that sponsibly in safety to keep ments would have cost is signifi- group, said the figures appear to we've been able to do it in Ver- them at home, because the state is cant." support the theory that early in- mont," she said. "And when we've not a good first choice as a parent.

r.thv rfirprtnr of in- tervention amily problems can expanded it (family programs), "Second, it just makes tremen- tensive family-based services for dous financial sense, because the the Vermont Coalition of Run- What we've been able to save more we've been able to dollars. It works." II HI III! ilffl mam ran The Associated Press WESTMORE State police used a two-person submarine Monday to comb the depths of Lake Willoughby in search of a missing Walden man. The vessel was lowered into the water as police looked for dues in the disappearance of Russell Bovit. He was classified as missing in May 1986, when his blue Renault was found abandoned on a road near the Walden-Danville line. "This is just another effort" to find clues, state police Detective Richard Perry said.

"I don't know what else we can do other than pulling the plug. And I don't know where the plug is." The submarine belongs to Harold Maynard, who said it prolongs the amount of time a person can remain underwater. "It's good for probably four or five hours per dive. That's a long Charges dropped in assault case Vermont District Court Judge Alden Bryan Monday dismissed a case against a Burlington man charged with two counts of sexually assaulting two pre-teen girls. Edward F.

Bessette 31, was charged with forcing the two girls to perform sexual acts with him in the back seat of his car, parked in a field in Williston in early 1985. The second sexual assault charge alleged that Bessette had sexual contact with one of the girls in September 1984. Bryan dismissed the two charges on the basis that the three-year statute of limitations in effect at the time of the alleged crimes ran out before the prosecutions began. An application for an arrest warrant for Bessette, who was arrested June 24, was not filed until June 20 of this year. The Associated Press MONTPELIER The number of children in state custody has begun declining for the first time in years, a fact state officials attribute to programs aimed at keeping families together.

Cases in which the state takes custody of abused or unmanageable children had climbed steadily, from 1,472 to 1,777 a 21 percent increase over a three-year period ending last year. The costs for placing children in foster or group homes an average of just less than $10,000 per child had become an increasing concern. But William Young, commissioner of the Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services, said new programs aimed both at curbing abuse and delinquency and keeping children at home appear to be paying off. This year, the number of children in state custody has fallen by 8 percent, to 1,636, while new children introduced to state care have declined by 17 percent. "There's no question how pleased I am by this review," Young said of the new figures.

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