A Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Department officer sentenced to
40 years in prison for child porn photos is now charged with 12 counts of sexual
assault of a child.
Philip Wentzel, an inmate at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terra
Haute, Ind., is accused of performing sexual acts with the young victims he was
filming in May 2010 at a campsite in Fond du Lac County, according to a
criminal complaint.
Wentzel has been in custody at the Fond du Lac County Jail
since June, awaiting a plea and sentencing hearing, said Fond du Lac County
Circuit Court Judge Gary Sharpe. Wentzel appeared in court Thursday with public
defender Laurel Munger.
The sexual assault charges, filed in February, state that
videos obtained from Wentzel show him performing sexual acts on girls ages 7,
14 and 15, and that the children appear drugged, according to the complaint.
Wentzel was sentenced in December 2012 after pleading guilty
in federal court to seven counts of producing child pornography.