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Woman charged in sex case gets six months

HOULTON – A Cary Plantation woman who was found guilty last fall for her role in a sexual threesome with her husband and a teenage girl will serve six months in jail for her part in the crime.

Felisha Dorr, 25, was indicted on a charge of gross sexual assault along with her husband, Charles F. Dorr, 28, by the Aroostook County grand jury last January.

The couple is in the process of divorcing.

According to court records, Felisha Dorr recently received five years in prison with all but six months suspended on the sex charge in Aroostook County Superior Court. She has been incarcerated since last November and will be given credit for the time already served.

Dorr will remain on probation for three years and must register as a sexual offender.

The terms of her probation require that she provide a DNA sample, refrain from using drugs and alcohol, submit to random search and testing, and refrain from possessing firearms. Dorr cannot have contact with children under the age of 18, unless they are her own. She is to have no contact with the two females who were involved in the case.

Superior Court Justice E. Allen Hunter presided over the trial.

Aroostook County Assistant District Attorney Suzanne Russell told jurors last fall that Felisha Dorr and her husband participated in a sexual act with the then 15-year-old female victim in July 2004.

The teen, who was 17 at the time of the trial, testified that she and her then 13-year-old sister had been related to Charles Dorr, and that they moved in with the couple briefly after conflicts with their stepmother.

The teen said that she drank alcohol and smoked marijuana with the Dorrs, and that she, her sister and the couple were drinking heavily on the night of the incident.

The girl said her younger sister was so intoxicated she became sick and went to bed, and Charles Dorr also became ill. She said that while Dorr was in the bathroom, Felisha Dorr asked her if she wanted to engage in a sexual threesome.

The teen said she went to retrieve a condom and watched Felisha Dorr put it on her husband prior to the act. She also told Russell she had prior sexual contact with Charles Dorr, who she said started making sexual advances toward her shortly after she began living in the home.

Charles Dorr admitted he had engaged in a sexual threesome with the teen and his wife. Charles Dorr, who was incarcerated for his role in the crime and is now a registered sex offender, testified that his wife was “wasted,” that he was “convulsing … puking … and having diarrhea” prior to the act and that the victim was “pretty drunk” when the incident occurred.

The victim’s sister corroborated the girl’s testimony, saying that her sister told her about the threesome, and that she’d also overhead a conversation among the trio about it the next morning.

When Felisha Dorr briefly moved out of the home later that year, Charles Dorr continued his sexual relationship with the victim until his wife returned, he testified.

The victim said she eventually told Felisha Dorr about the relationship with Charles Dorr, and later testified the woman had her write a letter stating “there was no threesome.”

The girl added that she started urinating on clothes in her room upstairs because she was afraid to go downstairs into the Dorrs’ sleeping quarters to access the bathroom. She told the jury she had gained more than 60 pounds since the incident.

The two girls eventually went to live with their grandparents.

Felisha Dorr adamantly denied the charges but did not testify in her own defense.

Among other requirements under the gross sexual assault statute, the state had to prove that Felisha Dorr was a “parent … guardian … or some other person responsible for the long-term care and welfare” of the victim.

Attorney Cathy Rogers Lufkin, who represented Dorr, contended her client never had custody of the victim. Custody was retained by the victim’s father, she said, a fact that was substantiated by a Department of Health and Human Services caseworker. Lufkin characterized Charles Dorr as “evasive” and “snide” on the witness stand, and submitted into evidence a letter he’d written to his wife in which he acknowledged having anger management issues and warned that he would not let anyone get away with hurting him.

Dorr pleaded guilty last year to assaulting his wife.

Lufkin said there were “inconsistencies in testimony, in timing” and about various acts alleged to have been committed by her client. She said that her client was helping the victim try to pursue her education out of town and that she was not the victim’s long-term caregiver.

During the recent sentencing hearing, Dorr also pleaded guilty and received a six-month jail sentence for unlawful trafficking in scheduled drugs, unlawful possession of drugs, and violation of condition of release.

The trafficking charge involved oxycodone, and Dorr was reportedly in possession of methamphetamine at the time of the incident.

The trafficking sentence will run concurrently with the gross sexual assault sentence. Dorr must also make $100 in restitution to the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency.


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