TOPSHAM, Maine — A convicted felon has been elected to the Topsham Board of Selectmen.
WGME-TV reports that Paul Bennett Jr. was sentenced to 10 years in prison in the mid-1990s for manslaughter in the death of his 11-month-old son Aaron.
Bennett says he has to live every day with the fact he’s responsible for the shaking death of his son, who was having a seizure at the time.
But he says local residents shouldn’t have to live with it.
He says he’ll decline the position, despite having been elected, to spare Topsham residents from the controversy.