WINTHROP -The Bailey Public Library, 39 Bowdoin St., will host District Attorney Maeghan Maloney as part of the Winthrop Lakes Region Forum and is sponsored by the Winthrop Public Library Foundation.
Maloney will speak at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 26.
Maloney, the prosecutor for the case, will discuss the case of Christopher Knight, dubbed by the media “The North Pond Hermit.”
Maloney is the district attorney for Kennebec and Somerset counties. As a child, she lived in the Tall Pines Low Income Housing Project in Lewiston until her family moved to Turner, where she graduated from Leavitt High School in 1989.
She received scholarships to attend Swarthmore College and Harvard Law School. After graduation, she worked as a prosecutor in Portland, Ore., starting in the trial unit until she was promoted to run the forfeiture unit. Maloney spent a year in Asia on a Luce Fellowship, working to stop domestic violence. In Maine, she served as an assistant attorney general before being elected to the Maine legislature.
