PORTLAND (WGAN) A former corrections officer charged in connection with a crash that killed a 9-year-old girl in Gorham pleaded not guilty in court on Monday.

62-year-old Kenneth Morang is charged with manslaughter in the death of Raelynn Bell. Police say she was a passenger in an SUV that was rear-ended by Morang’s pickup truck on Route 25 last summer.

Morang was a corrections officer at the Cumberland County Jail at the time of the crash but has since resigned. The Portland Press Herald reports Morang had just finished a nearly 16-hour shift, and he had clocked out of work about 30 minutes before the crash.

The sheriff’s office and corrections’ union are now in negotiations to develop an overtime policy.