Category Archive for : ‘WISCONSIN’

December 11, 2020
Alisa M. Schafer
HTR News

MANITOWOC – Eric Fisher, a former cheer coach in Manitowoc, has been sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in state prison after attempting to have sex with a 15-year-old.
Fisher, 30, was convicted of five felony charges including using a computer to facilitate a child sex crime, two charges of soliciting intimate representation from a minor and two charges of exposing a child to harmful material.
Fisher was arrested on Feb. 27, 2019, during a sting operation.
The criminal complaint states a Manitowoc Police Department School Resource Officer received information

July 21, 2020
Jake Prinsen
Post Crescent

MILWAUKEE – A New York man was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for sexually abusing two children in Appleton and California whom he met online.

Cort W. Davis, 32, of Rochester, New York, who is a registered sex offender, initiated online relationships with teenagers by pretending to be a 19-year-old named Caleb, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

Officials said Davis traveled to southern California in April 2018 where he rented a hotel room and violently sexually abused a 14-year-old over several days. He then

February 19, 2020
Fox 11
APPLETON, Wis. (WLUK) — Casey Welk, a part-time Grand Chute police community service officer, was charged Wednesday with 10 counts of possession of child pornography.
Welk faces up to 250 years in prison 25 each for the ten felonies he faces.
According to the criminal complaint, an online tip claimed the child porn images were posted to Instagram. Outagamie County sheriff’s officials tracked the account to Welk’s address. The Outagamie County Sheriff’s Office says the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children steered them towards Welk.
After tracing his IP

February 25, 2020
Kare 11

MADISON, Wis. — A western Wisconsin school superintendent accused of sex crimes was released from custody Monday under orders that he remain under house arrest.
Altoona Superintendent Dan Peggs, 32, is charged in federal court with sex trafficking and possession of child pornography. Authorities say he recruited a minor for sex acts in 2015 and created a child pornography video involving that minor.
Ashley Peggs, the suspect’s wife, told WEAU-TV that her husband will be staying with family in Oregon, Wisconsin. She said he will not be allowed back

The Journal Times

A man who believed he was meeting a 15-year-old girl for sex was arrested in Waterford as partof a sting operation, authorities say.

Scott A. Nesbitt, 48, of Monroe, was charged Monday with attempted second-degree sexual assaultof a child, use of a computer to facilitate a child sex crime and possession of childpornography.

According to a release from the Racine County Sheriff’s Office: Nesbitt allegedly traveledfrom Monroe with the intent to meet a 15-year-old girl for sex. Arrangements were made for Nesbittto meet the “girl” on Saturday morning at the

Donald W. Rager, 41, from Grayslake, Illinois, was sentenced today to more than 31 years in federal prison for traveling to Iowa to have sex with a 13 year old boy and taping the encounter.  Rager, a part-time police officer who operated a security business, received the prison term after guilty pleas to one count of traveling in interstate commerce to engage in sexual conduct with a minor, one count of producing child pornography, and one count of transporting child pornography across a state line.  Rager met the boy in