Metro Atlanta / State News 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Man who bit Forsyth girls charged with stalking

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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Gordon Kent Nelson, 44,  of Cumming, charged last month with biting two 8-year-old girls on separate occasions, was arrested Monday for aggravated stalking of one of the families.

Captain Frank Huggins of the Forsyth County Sheriff's Office said that the family of one of the girls was in a Walmart near Alpharetta when Nelson entered the store. The family left the store, and Nelson followed them into the parking lot and began arguing with the girl's uncle and also blew kisses at the family. A condition of his bond when he was released from jail in April after being charged with misdemeanor battery had been that he avoid contact with the families of the two girls. The new charge is a felony.

Nelson is charged with biting one girl last August and another last March. Both were friends of his daughter and were spending time with her when the incidents allegedly happened. Nelson said in the first case that he was wrestling with the kids and horsing around and did not mean to hurt the girl.

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