As emerged this week in the final days of Statesboro’s mayoral race, candidate Raymond L. Harris Sr. was charged with three counts of aggravated child molestation and one count of statutory rape nearly 20 years ago in Clayton County. But a judge in effect dismissed one of the charges, and a jury found Harris not guilty of the other three.

Harris, who served one year in the U.S. Army Reserves and then six years on active duty in the Army before being honorably discharged in 1998, later worked in information technology for civilian companies and was briefly a Bulloch County Sheriff’s Office jailer. A resident of Statesboro for 16 years now, he is challenging incumbent Mayor Jonathan McCollar, now in the fourth year of his second four-year term.

Early voting was in its final four days and E

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