As his criminal charges for taking a teen across

As his criminal charges for taking a teen across state lines for sex pend at federal court, a Groveton man is being charged in superior court for raping a child. Brandon L. Couture, 38, was indicted by a Coos Superior Court grand jury on a special class felony count of aggravated felonious sexual assault for engaging in a pattern of assault from June 2022 to September 2023 in Groveton against a minor who was 7 years old when the assaults began. Couture is scheduled to be arraigned on Nov. 12.