MAINE
Bangor Daily News
By Judy Harrison, BDN Staff
Posted March 17, 2015,
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BANGOR, Maine — A Maine superior court justice on Tuesday found the former priest at St. George Greek Orthodox Church guilty on four counts of sexual abuse of a minor.
Adam Metropoulos, 52, of Bangor took the stand Tuesday and denied sexually assaulting an altar server in 2006 and 2007 when the boy was 15.
He told Superior Court Justice Ann Murray on the second day of his jury-waived trial that he never had sex with the now 23-year-old. Metropoulos admitted that he touched the victim’s genitals over his pajamas once.
The grown altar server, who now lives in Vermont, testified Monday that Metropoulos repeatedly sexually assaulted him when he was 15. The man is not being identified by the Bangor Daily News because is the victim of a sex crime.
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