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Sweeping it under the carpet for over fifty years

Monday, August 12, 2013

Milwaukee officer charged with sexual assault of a child.


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.