Wilton Frederick Bland ran as a Republican candidate for Mineral County Commission in West Virginia but lost about a year before he was arrested on 136 charges: 73 counts of possession of child pornography; 45 counts of sexual assault in the first degree for allegedly having sex with a child under age 11; nine counts of use of obscene matter with intent to seduce a minor; seven counts of display of obscene matter to a minor; and two counts of employing a minor to do sexually explicit conduct.
He gave an Alford plea in one county and a guilty plea in the other. He was sentenced to 80 years.
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