Alleged Sex Offender Has Newtown Criminal Record
Alleged Sex Offender Has Newtown Criminal Record
By Andrew Gorosko
Police report that a Naugatuck man, who recently was charged with a variety of sex crimes against girls under age 16 in Naugatuck, Ansonia, and Derby, is the same man who was arrested in August 1989 in Newtown on two sex offenses, which led to a conviction.
On November 19, the state policeâs Western District Major Crime Squad arrested Robert A. Nelson, 50, of 111 Mallane Lane, Unit 2-H, Naugatuck, on warrants on 11 sex charges involving girls who were 13, 14, and 15 years old. The offenses allegedly occurred between 2000 and 2004. The charges include employing a minor in an obscene performance, first-degree, second-degree, and fourth-degree sexual assault, risk of injury to a minor, possession of child pornography, providing alcohol to a minor, and tampering with evidence, state police said.
In the summer of 1989, Newtown Police Detective Sergeant Robert Tvardzik investigated a complaint against Nelson involving sexual offenses against a girl under 16 in Newtown.
In that case, Nelson, who was a piano teacher at a private studio, was involved in âinappropriate behavior of a sexual natureâ with a student in July 1989, Det Sgt Tvardzik said this week.
In August 1989, Newtown police charged Nelson with two counts of risk of injury to a minor.
In Danbury Superior Court in March 1990, Nelson entered a plea bargain agreement with the state prosecutor, in which Nelson pleaded guilty to one count of risk of injury and the second count was not prosecuted, Det Sgt Tvardzik said.
In that case, Nelson received a suspended one-year jail sentence and three yearsâ probation as punishment for the conviction. At that time, Nelson was a Bethel resident. Nelson was not placed on the Connecticut Sex Offender Registry on the Internet because those 1989 conviction predated the registryâs creation in 1998.
In the current criminal cases, Nelson has posted $500,000 bail and was scheduled to appear in Waterbury Superior Court on December 1, and in Derby Superior Court on December 6 for arraignments.