Pawcatuck Man Sentenced to 15 Years on Child Sex Assault Case

Former Scout leader Scott D. Aronson of Pawcatuck was sentenced in a New London Superior Court room Tuesday to 15 years in prison for having illegal sexual contact with a Groton child criminal court clerk Debra Woodward confirmed.   

The specific state statute reads risk of injury to a child by having “contact with the intimate parts … in a sexual and indecent manner likely to impair the health or morals of such child.” 

According to court records, Aronson, 38, 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.” 

According to Woodward, Aronson must serve six years; the sentence is suspended after that period but he will be on probation for 10 years upon his release from prison. He also has a “multitude” of conditions including a criminal protective order, which forbids him from contact with the victim. 

Groton Town police arrested Aronson of 10 Downer St., in Pawcatuck on Sept. 18, 2012. He was initially charged with first-degree sexual assault, second-degree sexual assault and risk of injury to a child, according to court records. He was sentenced Tuesday on the charge of illegal sexual contact based on statements from the victim. 

In the court affidavit, the sexual assaults began when she was 9 and continued until she was 16. The 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. 

“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. 

Aronson is currently incarcerated at the Hartford Correctional Center.