Crime & Safety

Affidavit: Groton Girl Was Assaulted For Seven Years

Pawcatuck man arrested and charged this week being held at Corrigan-Radgowski Correctional Center.

The Pawcatuck man charged earlier this week with first-degree sexual assault repeatedly attacked a Groton girl from the time she was 9 until she was 16 years old, according to an affidavit filed in New London Superior Court.

Groton police arrested Scott D. Aronson, 37, of 10 Downer St., in Pawcatuck on Sept. 18 and charged him with first-degree sexual assault, second-degree sexual assault and risk of injury to a child, according to court records.

He is being held at Corrigan-Radgowski Correctional Center in Uncasville. He has not entered a plea, and is scheduled to appear in court Oct. 2.

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According to an application for an arrest warrant, the girl, who is not being identified, was interviewed by police on July 21 after telling her mother about the incidents.

An affidavit said she told police the first incident occurred when she was about nine and she was touched inappropriately. She said she screamed and ran away, but was told later that bad things would happen if she reported the incidents.

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“Once the victim was 11 years old, the incidents. . . increased in frequency and would occur almost weekly. The incidents then increased to almost everyday,” the affidavit said.

The affidavit describes scenes in which the victim would be assaulted in a van in the parking lots of local grocery stores, and said she would be accosted in the laundry room and in her house, and she would be screaming and hitting.

“The victim also said that if she did not do what (the defendant) wanted, he would punch her and threaten to kill her,” the affidavit said.

The affidavit said Aronson admitted to trying to have sex with the girl and “admitted that on more than one occasion he gave the victim money to not tell her mother what he did.” The affidavit said that he regretted what he did.

The girl talked to her mother after a friend encouraged her to speak up.


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