AA Sponsor Floyd Nadeau kept this murder a secret for a couple of weeks, before he went to police because of anonimity concerns!
AUBURN — A Lewiston man is expected to plead guilty next month to manslaughter in connection with the clock-beating death of a New Gloucester woman.
Bob Ryder
Bob W. Ryder, 21, was indicted in August 2011 on a murder charge.
He is scheduled to appear June 5 in Androscoggin County Superior Court for a plea hearing, but no sentence agreement, beyond the manslaughter plea, was reached between Ryder and the state.
Assistant Attorney General Lisa Marchese said Wednesday that manslaughter carries a sentence of up to 30 years. She said she is planning to argue that Ryder should serve a sentence at the high end of that cap. Defense attorney, Justin Leary, is expected to argue for a shorter sentence.
“Basically, (Ryder) confessed to manslaughter and the evidence supported that,” Marchese said.
Last July, Maine State Police found the decomposing body of Danita Brown, 38, partially buried in the basement of Ryder’s ground-floor apartment at 417 Main St. in Lewiston
Police said in a sworn statement that Ryder had admitted hitting Brown in the head with a clock. She died of blunt-force trauma. He had told his Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor about his actions and where he buried her. His sponsor told police about two and a half weeks later.
Ryder told the sponsor, Floyd Nadeau, that Brown was a prostitute and he had caught her going through his wallet after sex, according to the police affidavit in court files.
When Nadeau expressed doubt about Ryder’s account of events, he took Nadeau into the basement and showed him Brown’s body, which was partially covered with pieces of wood.
Nadeau told police he delayed his report for fear of breaking the AA confidentiality agreement.
This is an update about how Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous feel that they are above the law. They believe that their “ANONYMOUS CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT” entitles them to withhold information from police about crimes committed by members.
Understandably, being increasingly flooded with all kinds of mentally and emotionally unstable court mandated felons who are sent from jail to AA/NA for compliance, these non-accountable, anonymous, unsupervised addiction rehabilitation sessions are in turn becoming increasingly dangerous!
The struggle to maintain a SAFE, “atmosphere of recovery IMAGE,” is requiring a lot more covering things up, IN THIS CASE MURDER.
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This is actually not the first time when something like this will happening. So many criminals that commit murder nowadays get lighter sentences by pleading guilty to manslaughter. I wonder how defense attorneys master up the courage to defend criminals that commit gruesome acts as murder.
I remember when this story broke last year. I thought of going there to report on the story. I hope he gets 30 years. Where is her family. I would like to speak with them.
This is actually not the first time when something like this will happening. So many criminals that commit murder nowadays get lighter sentences by pleading guilty to manslaughter. I wonder how defense attorneys master up the courage to defend criminals that commit gruesome acts as murder