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Michael Seri Jr. sued the state for $395,000 for his suffering and was awarded $370,000, the News-Times said. But $200,000 was subtracted, the amount he recovered by suing Newtown and its police department in 2009, the story said.
Seri is a white, balding man, and the suspect was described as a Hispanic male with black hair, but the Newtown police charged Seri despite the discrepancy, the News-Times said.
Seri was sentenced to six months in prison in 2001 and labeled a sex offender, the News-Times reported. After fingerprint evidence linked the crime to a known sexual predator arrested for similar incidents, the charges were dropped in 2003, the story said.
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