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(Waterbury-AP, June 23, 2005 6:45 AM) _ An Ansonia woman has been sentenced to three years in prison for blackmailing a man accused of sexually abusing her two daughters.
The woman was sentenced yesterday in Waterbury Superior after pleading guilty to first-degree larceny for extorting $17,000 from 50-year-old Robert Nelson of Naugatuck.
Nelson is facing charges of sexually abusing the woman's two daughters, who were 14 and 16 years old at the time of Nelson's arrest.
Prosecutors say the woman was arrested in November in a sting operation set up by State Police and Nelson, during which she was asking for an additional $30,000.
Nelson, a former organist who also gave piano lessons at Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church in Waterbury, will appear in Milford Superior Court on Monday for a pretrial hearing on sexual abuse charges.
Posted by kshaw at June 23, 2005 08:28 AM