{"id":392268,"date":"2025-11-20T13:13:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T13:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/392268\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T13:13:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T13:13:21","slug":"former-maine-gubernatorial-candidate-turned-sex-offender-accused-of-shopping-for-escort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/392268\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Maine gubernatorial candidate turned sex offender accused of shopping for escort"},"content":{"rendered":"

ELLSWORTH, Maine (WGME) — A two-time candidate for Maine governor who’s now a convicted sex offender could be sent back behind bars.<\/p>\n

Eliot Cutler, 79, is accused of violating conditions of release.<\/p>\n

In 2023, he was convicted of possession of sexually explicit material of a minor under 12. Prosecutors said he possessed 80,000 images of children being sexually assaulted.<\/p>\n

\"Eliot<\/p>\n

Eliot Cutler at his sentencing on{ } May 4, 2023. (WGME)<\/p>\n

He was sentenced to four years, with only nine months to be served in the Hancock County Jail. He spent about 8 months in jail before being released<\/a> for good behavior last year.<\/p>\n

Cutler has completed roughly one-third of his six years of probation.<\/p>\n

He was recently accused of of violating the terms of his probation by accessing sexually explicit material online and using unmonitored devices.<\/p>\n

According to court documents, Cutler recently visited the website of a massage parlor in the San Francisco area and answered questions about his preferences in an escort, including her race, age, and other more explicit details.<\/p>\n

The court paperwork says Cutler timed the request to coincide with a trip to California, claiming he wanted to see elderly friends.<\/p>\n

\"2-time<\/p>\n

2-time Maine gubernatorial candidate Eliot Cutler was convicted of possessing child pornography. (WGME)<\/p>\n

If convicted of violating probation, he could face more than three years in prison.<\/p>\n

He’s due to be in court in Ellsworth on December 16.<\/p>\n

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Cutler ran for governor of Maine in 2010 and 2014 and came within a few thousand votes of winning in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ELLSWORTH, Maine (WGME) — A two-time candidate for Maine governor who’s now a convicted sex offender could be…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":392269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-392268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-san-antonio","10":"tag-sanantonio","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115582207504349911","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}