John Sommerer, former Coral Springs mayor, was given a four-and-a-half-year prison sentence after pleading no contest to charges of molesting a 5-year-old girl.
Sommerer, 60, must also serve 30 years of sexual-offender probation after his release. State law requires registered sex offenders to live at least 1,000 feet from schools, parks, bus stops and places where children congregate.
Sommerer, who faced a maximum life sentence if convicted at trial, pleaded no contest to nine counts, ranging from lewd and lascivious molestation to exhibition. The incidents happened from April 1, 2006, to Oct. 31, 2007.
Sommerer served as mayor of the city for 10 years. Term limits forced him from office in 2004. He did not succeed when he tried to make a political comeback in 2006.
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