Rick W. Nelson was the Republican Mayor of Stillwater, New York, from 2015 to 2017. He was arrested in August 2017, while his son was campaigning in the Democratic congressional primary to take on Elise Stefanik. He pleaded guilty.
When pleading guilty, he expressed contrition and claimed sex addiction that now that it has been discovered was being treated. His lawyer talked about the good he has done. He even volunteered to be a guinea pig in experimental treatment for sex addiction.
It all sounds good except this was his FIFTH arrest for victimizing children.
Nelson, a Republican who was a Democrat in the 1990s, faced three separate sex crime cases between 1975 and 1986 – with one of the latter cases including allegations of rape and sodomy. And in 1982, the future mayor was accused of inappropriate behavior toward a 5-year-old on the school bus.
Times Union: Ex-Stillwater mayor gets prison in child porn case
- Adirondack Daily Enterprise: Stillwater ex-mayor, father of congressional candidate, charged with child porn.
- Times Union: Former Stillwater mayor admits child porn charges
- Times Union: Ex-Stillwater mayor gets prison in child porn case
01 Sep 2017