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BENNINGTON â A 79-year-old former law enforcement officer pleaded not guilty Wednesday to obstructing justice in his long-running child sexual assault case.
Leonard Forteâs new felony charges come less than two weeks after the Bennington Superior Court found him physically capable of being retried on sexual assault charges going back three decades. He is accused of assaulting a 12-year-old girl at his Landgrove vacation home in 1987.
A retired investigator with New Yorkâs Suffolk County District Attorneyâs Office, Forte was convicted on three charges of sexual assault in 1988. But the presiding judge granted him a new trial, saying the female prosecutor had prejudiced the jury by being too emotional.
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BENNINGTON â A 79-year-old former law enforcement officer pleaded not guilty Wednesday to obstructing justice in his long-running child sexual assault case.
Leonard Forteâs new felony charges come less than two weeks after the Bennington Superior Court found him physically capable of being retried on sexual assault charges going back three decades. He is accused of assaulting a 12-year-old girl at his Landgrove vacation home in 1987.
A retired investigator with New Yorkâs Suffolk County District Attorneyâs Office, Forte was convicted on three charges of sexual assault in 1988. But the presiding judge granted him a new trial, saying the female prosecutor had prejudiced the jury by being too emotional.
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BENNINGTON â The court affirmed on Tuesday the 12-years-to-life sentence of a former Bennington teacher convicted of sexually assaulting an underage student. The ruling came shortly after the defendant apologized for the first time in court for his crimes.
Morris David Nelson was convicted at trial of repeated aggravated sexual assault and sexual assault of a victim under 18 entrusted to his care. Authorities said he assaulted a 17-year-old girl during a period between 2015 and 2016, including a time when he was a math teacher at the Vermont School for Girls.
He was sentenced by Superior Judge William Cohen to serve 12 years to life in prison in 2018, based on the offense of repeated aggravated sexual assault.