Lawyer: Foster dad cleared in sex abuse case had home looted
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A former New York foster father acquitted this week of charges that he sexually abused six boys returned home after 16 months in jail to find his boarded-up house looted of nearly everything he owned.
His attorney says Cesar Gonzales-Mugaburu (gahn-ZAH'-leyz moo-gah-BOO'-roo) is now thinking of selling his story to make ends meet.
After his acquittal Tuesday, Gonzales-Mugaburu returned to his home in Ridge, on eastern Long Island.
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Attorney Donald Mates says "literally everything" was removed.
Items included personal property, furniture, cash, cars, copper piping, appliances and clothes.
He says Gonzales-Mugaburu had been offered a contract to develop a documentary on his story and was willing to do an interview — if he was paid.
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The jury foreman said there were too many holes in the prosecution's case to convict.