AUBURN – An alleged victim of convicted Lewiston pedophile Raymond Samson is suing for damages.
Samson sexually abused the youth over a two-year period starting when he was 10 years old, according to the lawsuit filed in Androscoggin County Superior Court.
The boy filed his complaint in October, about three months before Samson was tried and convicted on 16 sex-related counts involving minors. He is serving a 30-year sentence at the Maine State Prison.
Samson, 54, is scheduled for trial in August on charges of gross sexual assault and unlawful sexual contact in connection with the boy named in the suit.
The complaint says Samson’s actions caused the boy “serious and permanent psychological, emotional and physical injury.” He is seeking damages and legal fees.
A sworn statement signed by the boy, now 19, says he met Samson through his father. While they were visiting at Samson’s home, he plied the boy’s alcoholic father with booze until he passed out or was unable to drive, the boy said. Father and son would spend the night with Samson, the boy in a separate bedroom.
He awoke to find Samson performing oral sex on him while videotaping the act, the boy said in his statement. The boy pretended to be asleep, he said.
Over the next two years, Samson molested and sexually abused the boy about a dozen times, he said.
The boy was “disgusted, ashamed and greatly traumatized,” never reporting the acts to his parents or authorities, he said.
He said Samson “violated me in the most horrific manner and stole from me my innocence and a part of myself.”
Leonard Sharon, a local lawyer representing Samson, said Wednesday the trial is likely to be continued until after appeal of Samson’s January conviction is decided.
Samson owned two buildings on Webster Street at the time the boy filed his complaint; a credit union has since foreclosed on one of them. The court ordered $250,000 of Samson’s real estate attached in the event the boy wins his civil suit. A motion to impound Samson’s personal property is scheduled to be heard at the end of July.
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