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March 29, 2007

Woonsocket detective not guilty of abusing son

WOONSOCKET — A city police detective has been found not guilty of second-degree child abuse after police alleged he hit his 5-year-old son in the family’s Lincoln home last year.

The verdict in favor of Earl Ledoux, 44, of 325 Angell Road, made in Family Court today by Chief Family Court Judge Jeremiah S. Jeremiah Jr.

Lincoln police said that Ledoux was playing with his son last spring when the child, who is now 6, hit his father with a stuffed animal. Ledoux allegedly became upset and struck the boy repeatedly in the back and shoulder area with an open hand, which caused bruising on the boy’s back, according to Michael J. Healey, a spokesman for the Attorney General’s Office.

His mother, who was ill and asleep at the time, noticed the bruises as she was bathing him later that morning, and alerted the state Department of Children, Youth, and Families. The agency ordered Ledoux to leave the home for several days during the investigation.

Initially, the Attorney General’s Office requested that Ledoux have no contact with the boy, or the boy’s sister, but the court denied that request because of Ledoux’s wife’s illness, which requires that he assist at home.

-- Journal staff writer Kia Hayes

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