Does This Look Like the Face of a Man Who Is Has Been Charged With 68 Separate Felony Sex Crimes?

PORTLAND — A Windham man faces 68 felony charges for sex crimes after being indicted last week by a grand jury at Cumberland County Superior Court.

Nicholas Gladu, 27, faces one count of unlawful sexual contact and one count of sexual exploitation of a minor. Both of those counts are class A felonies, punishable by up to 30 years in prison.

Gladu also faces one class C felony charge for visual sexual aggression against a child under the age of 12, and 65 class C felony charges for possession of sexually explicit materials. Class C crimes are punishable by up to five years in prison.

Lt. Michael Nugent of the Westbrook Police Department issued a press release this afternoon. He said Westbrook, Windham, the Maine Computer Crimes Task Force and the Cumberland County District Attorney's Office worked together on the four-month investigation of Gladu. The crimes allegedly happened between August and October of 2010.

Gladu is being held on $100,000 cash or $500,000 property bond at the Cumberland County Jail.

"The matter continues to be investigated and additional charges may be filed as more information becomes available," Nugent wrote in the press release.

Heres what I dont get about this: how did it take this long for this shit to go down? I mean I get that sometimes when you are under cover or something you let things slide cause you are going after the big score. Like when Leo in The Departed is pissed that they wont just take Jack on the countless murder and drug charges cause pretty soon its going to cost him his life, but they tell him his gotta understand there are bigger things in play. I get that. What I don't get is how you let a sex offender slide for three or four months without stepping in here. Like even if the big ones, the class A felonies, came the night they arrested him how was he just cruising around with 65 counts of sexually explicit materials under his belt and everyone was cool with it? Also, what defines sexually explicit material and who has fucking 65 of them? How are you not going to get caught with 65 class C felonies up in your living room. This shit is no joke though, and I hope this guy gets what is coming to him, even if I'm not entirely sure what 'visual sexual aggression' is.