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Kewaskum man charged with sexually assaulting step-niece
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By ANDREW KUEHL
Akuehl@kewaskumstatesman.com
3/7/08 TOWN of AUBURN- A 26-year-old Kewaskum man is facing charges of second-degree sexual assault of a child under 16. According to police, the man’s step-niece claims he assaulted her on his couch while his daughter and step-daughter were asleep next to the victim.
Police allege in a criminal complaint that after the December 26, 2007 assault took place, Jeremy J. Gerlach offered the 13-year-old victim $40. According to a criminal complaint, he said to her “you are not going to tell anyone about this, right?” He was charged in Fond du Lac County Circuit Court last week.
The complaint alleges that as his children were sleeping around 4 a.m. Gerlach started sexually assaulting the victim. After he finished, he left the victim.
At 6 a.m. that same morning the victim says that Gerlach again assaulted her as she tried to sleep. Afterwards he offered her the money.
When approached by Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Department detectives on February 6 he admitted that she was at his residence and that he gave her a hug and may have brushed her butt, but that was all.
Gerlach will have a preliminary hearing before Judge Steven Weinke on Friday, March 21.
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