article_snippet.sent: Judge Anne Simon signed off on the plea deal, after three other judges - including Dufresne's father Judge Emile St Pierre - removed themselves from the case.
article_snippet.sent: District Attorney Joel Chaisson II heralded the plea deal as a success. '
article_snippet.sent: I want to thank my special prosecutor, Julie Cullen, for married mother-of-three Dufresne efforts to reach a fair resolution of the case and to secure a felony guilty plea, thereby sparing the juvenile victim in this matter from having to testify at a public trial,' District Attorney Joel Chaisson II said in a statement.
article_snippet.sent: The parents of the juvenile victim were in court on Thursday, and according to media who attended the meeting, The parents of the victim were not happy with the settlement.