Conservative Babylon

Claims to fame: Republican; Lititz, Pennsylvania, Borough Council member (1994-2001); two-time loser for mayor; mayoral candidate, 2009; husband, father; youth group leader, Lititz United Methodist Church; Santa Claus “at Lititz Springs Park during the Christmas season”; accused child molester

Moral apex: Arrested May 27, 2009, and charged with two felonies and two misdemeanors — “aggravated indecent assault, unlawful contact with a minor, indecent assault and corruption of minors” — for initiating a sexual relationship with a 12-year-old girl, which lasted from October, 2002, to June, 2004.

Reported Lancaster Online: “There were at least eight encounters, the detective was told. Nies told the girl, ‘This is what dads do,’ according to the affidavit.

Cops also said “they had tracked Internet conversations in which Nies logged on more than 500 times between February and April 2009 posing as a teenage girl.”

Maximum sentence if convicted on all charges: Fifty years.

Warning signs: Before his arrest, Nies had recently been sacked from his job as a CAD drafter, had quit his church job as a youth counselor, and had dropped out of the mayoral race, citing “personal reasons.”

What’s more: There was apparently an earlier, similar allegation against Nies by another female member of his church.

Meanwhile: Nies’ MySpace and Facebook pages have disappeared. (Here’s the MySpace cache.)

Suggested Bible reading for Mr. Nies:

And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me.

But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!

— Matthew 18:5-7

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