The Torrington Register-Citizen posted this story last night, reporting that State Representative George Wilbur paid a woman $100,000 in 2005:
Excerpt:

Documents left with The Register Citizen Thursday suggest Wilber was accused of sexually abusing a girl from the time she was 11 years old. The woman is now in her 40s. Among the documents is a letter from the alleged victim’s doctor to noted sex abuse attorney Susan K. Smith, which states that her patient claimed to have been the victim of sexual abuse from ages 11 through 18. Smith did not return a phone call seeking comment. �
Wilbur has never been subject of a criminal investigation, police said.
Current Connecticut law states that no person may be prosecuted for sexual abuse or assault of a minor after the victim’s 48th birthday or after five years of the date the victim notifies authorities. Prior to 1992, victims only had two years after their 18th birthday to report abuse.
Wilber, who served as Colebrook first selectman for 18 years, voted in 2002 in favor of extending the statute of limitations for civil cases involving sex crimes.
“I voted for the bill that allowed her to sue,” Wilber said.

Apparently the unnamed woman’s lawyer was Susan K. Smith. Who was Wilbur’s attorney? What kind of legal advice did he receive?

Wilbur is either guilty of this – in which case the advice should have been “do not run again for State Representative” – or he is not guilty, in which case the advice should have been “fight it”. If he is not guilty of this, why wouldn’t he fight it? How do you prove something like this twenty years after the fact? Or, does somebody else know something? This looks alarmingly like hush money.

Meanwhile, the timing of the revelation makes it look suspiciously like an “October surprise”. State Republican Party Chairman Chris Healy in a press release nearly simultaneous to the disclosure of the documents by the Register Citizen has called for Wilbur to explain or resign.

Wilbur is opposed this cycle by Republican nominee John Rigby.