AUBURN – Lewiston Mayor Lionel Guay was willing to consider a guilty plea to some assault counts less than a week before his trial started, according to his accuser.

But neither the state’s prosecutor nor the complainant in that case was willing to drop all charges of unlawful sexual touching, they both said Thursday.

Guay was acquitted on three counts of unlawful sexual touching and one count of assault Wednesday in Androscoggin County Superior Court.

The jury also found him not guilty of alternative counts of assault for the sexual touching charges.

Guay said Wednesday that the verdict “speaks for itself.” He declined further comment on the case when asked on Thursday.

Danielle Ramon, who claimed Guay groped her while she worked as a high school student at his accounting office last year, said Thursday that a plea agreement would have meant a gag order and she didn’t want that.

“I wanted my day in court,” she said.

Justice Ellen Gorman, who presided over the case, sent the two parties to Portland five days before Guay’s trial was scheduled to start. She wanted to see whether the case could be settled before going to trial.

The two lawyers met with Justice Robert Crowley in his chambers at Cumberland County Superior Court while Ramon sat in a conference room outside the courtroom. Guay sat in a different room.

Assistant Attorney General Leanne Robbin came back to the room where Ramon sat and asked her whether she was willing to drop the charges of unlawful sexual touching. If so, Guay would serve no jail time.

Ramon declined. “I wanted everyone to hear what happened to me,” she said during an interview Thursday at her Auburn home.

Now that the criminal case is over, Ramon said she won’t file a civil suit, despite her mother’s urging.

“I don’t want to. I’m done,” she said. “I don’t think he deserves any more attention.”

Ramon said she also doesn’t want the public to think she had any motive other than to tell the truth. Guay’s attorney, Jennifer Ferguson, hinted at trial that Ramon might have been motivated by greed.

Ramon went to Lewiston police nearly a year ago, but only after her parents proposed having Ramon’s younger sister Renay go to work for Guay.

“That scared me,” she said. “I didn’t want to be responsible for that … I had to say the truth.”

That’s when she spilled her secret to her parents, but only hinted at the things that happened to her at work.

She struggled with the notion of creating a rift. The two families had been close. Her grandmother was a longtime friend of Guay’s wife. She came to think of him as a surrogate grandfather, calling him pepere.

But she decided she couldn’t put her sister at risk.

When the unwanted touching started, she thought it was accidental.

“I try to think the best of people,” she said. Then, a month later, the touching continued, she said.

She thought long and hard about her decision to go to police, she said. Her parents left the decision to her.

If she hadn’t pressed charges, it would have “eaten me up,” she said.

When the court clerk read the jury’s verdict earlier this week, Ramon said she had seen it coming. Earlier in the day she started having a “bad feeling.”

She has no regrets about going forward with the trial, she said, knowing she had her day in court.

She figures the verdict might reinforce the notion that Guay did nothing wrong. She believes otherwise.

“I cared for this person and he took advantage of the trust I had in him,” she said. “He hurt me.”