Lewiston man guilty in sexual contact case

AUBURN – A man who went to prison more than a decade ago for his role in the death of his 21/2-year-old son is likely to go back to jail after being convicted of unlawful sexual touching and sexual contact with a teenage girl.

Rocky Crowley was convicted Wednesday of four misdemeanors in Androscoggin County Superior Court but he was acquitted of two more serious charges. Crowley, who was living in Lewiston at the time, was accused of sexually abusing his stepdaughter’s best friend.

In 1993, Crowley was sentenced to five years in prison for aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of a child stemming from the death of Chase Vincent Crowley.

The boy’s mother, Sherrie Cotton, was convicted of stuffing a sock into the child’s mouth to stop his crying. She served three years in prison.