A Salem man has been given a life sentence in a public-indecency and theft case, the Washington County District Attorney’s Office said.
Joshua Cory Nealy, 41, received the sentence on May 7 under an Oregon law that makes life without the possibility of parole the “presumptive sentence” for a defendant who has been convicted at least twice before of felony sex crimes.
Nealy was convicted of attempted rape in 2007 and public indecency in 2018. He has a long record of arrests and convictions that goes back more than 20 years, including pleading guilty in 2010 to failure to report as a sex offender, according to available court documents. Prosecutors said he had been arrested 166 times…