ALFRED — Prosecutors told jurors today that the man who prompted Maine’s first Amber Alert raped the mother of his child and choked her.

Gary Traynham, 39, of Kennebunk is on trial in York County Superior Court on charges of gross sexual assault, aggravated assault, criminal restraint and burglary. He is not charged with any wrongdoing in connection with taking his daughter, Hailey, from Sanford to New Hampshire, where he ultimately turned himself in.

Traynham’s lawyer, Amy Fairfield, told jurors that Traynham is a devoted father, who was often prevented from seeing or speaking with his daughter by her mother, Lisa Gould.

Fairfiled said that Traynham and Gould fought the morning of Nov. 9, 2009, but there is no evidence that Traynham raped his ex-girlfriend.

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