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CROWN POINT — A 56-year-old former Illinois policeman who had prior child molestation convictions overturned on appeal will appear at trial on those charges again in February.

James E. McGee, of Yorkville, Illinois, was convicted in March 2010 of three counts of child molestation on allegations he repeatedly sexually abused a female from the ages of 9 to 15, according to The Times archives. The acts allegedly occurred in East Chicago.

McGee was a police officer for the Robbins Police Department in Illinois at the time of his arrest, archives state.

McGee was sentenced to 40 years prison, but the conviction was overturned in July 2015 by the Indiana Court of Appeals, according to court records. The appellate court determined that McGee, who was defended by attorney John Cantrell, was denied the effective assistance of trial counsel.

The appellate court's decision states the girl made the molestation claims after she was admitted into a psychiatric hospital in May 2009. The girl allegedly claimed she was pregnant, though tests proved otherwise, and was diagnosed with a nonspecific psychosis.

That information was not provided to the jury during McGee's trial, though it presented a “significant challenge to (the child's) credibility,” the decision states.