A Lincoln County Superior Court judge has granted, in part, a motion to suppress key evidence in the case of former Great Salt Bay Community School teacher Peter Simonds.
According to a Jan. 28 order by Justice Andrew Horton, the inadmissible evidence includes a written statement in which Simonds confessed to “inappropriately” touching three female students in his fourth grade classroom and a photocopy of a page from the school’s yearbook on which Simonds circled photographs of the students.
According to the order, part of an interview between Simonds and Damariscotta Police Chief Steve Drake is admissible, including Simonds’ admission of “touching an unspecified girl or girls on the thigh and breast…”
Simonds, 44, of Nobleboro, faces nine counts of Unlawful Sexual Contact and 13 counts of Unlawful Sexual Touching while a teacher at the Damariscotta elementary school.
A full story will follow in the Feb. 3 edition of The Lincoln County News.
