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http://www.jconline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060505/NEWS03/605050319/1152
Suspect in 1996 case pleads guilty
By Joe Gerrety
jgerrety@journalandcourier.com
A former Lafayette man who avoided prosecution on charges of child seduction a decade ago in Tippecanoe County pleaded guilty to similar charges this week in Madison, Wis.
Gregory A. Ledbetter, 39, could face up to 640 years in prison after pleading guilty in Circuit Court in Dane County, Wis., to 28 criminal counts, including sexual assault of a child, sexual assault of a disabled person, child sexual exploitation and child enticement.
In pleading guilty, according to Robert Kaiser of the Dane County, Wis., district attorney's office, Ledbetter admitted he had sexual contact with 10 teenage boys. Sixty-three other counts, involving the same victims, were dismissed.
Ledbetter had been working in the Madison area at a movie theater, in a hobby shop and at a group home for children. Kaiser said Ledbetter came in contact with the boys in the context of those jobs. The victims were all under age 18.
As part of the plea, Ledbetter also agreed to lifetime supervision as a serious sex offender. While the maximum sentence is lengthy, Kaiser said the entire sentence is suspendable.
No sentencing date had been scheduled as of Thursday.
Ledbetter was charged in Wisconsin in November after police, acting on a tip from one of Ledbetter's roommates, served a search warrant on the home and found dozens of video recordings of Ledbetter having sexual contact with other men and teenage boys.
Detective Matthew Misener, who investigated the case for the Madison Police Department, said in November that the recordings were marked with names, dates and two-digit numbers that police suspected were the ages of the people in each video.
Some of the videos depicting sexual activity bore the names of Ledbetter's accusers in the 1996 Tippecanoe County case, Misener said.
The Indiana statute of limitations on such crimes normally is five years.
Suspect in 1996 case pleads guilty
By Joe Gerrety
jgerrety@journalandcourier.com
A former Lafayette man who avoided prosecution on charges of child seduction a decade ago in Tippecanoe County pleaded guilty to similar charges this week in Madison, Wis.
Gregory A. Ledbetter, 39, could face up to 640 years in prison after pleading guilty in Circuit Court in Dane County, Wis., to 28 criminal counts, including sexual assault of a child, sexual assault of a disabled person, child sexual exploitation and child enticement.
In pleading guilty, according to Robert Kaiser of the Dane County, Wis., district attorney's office, Ledbetter admitted he had sexual contact with 10 teenage boys. Sixty-three other counts, involving the same victims, were dismissed.
Ledbetter had been working in the Madison area at a movie theater, in a hobby shop and at a group home for children. Kaiser said Ledbetter came in contact with the boys in the context of those jobs. The victims were all under age 18.
As part of the plea, Ledbetter also agreed to lifetime supervision as a serious sex offender. While the maximum sentence is lengthy, Kaiser said the entire sentence is suspendable.
No sentencing date had been scheduled as of Thursday.
Ledbetter was charged in Wisconsin in November after police, acting on a tip from one of Ledbetter's roommates, served a search warrant on the home and found dozens of video recordings of Ledbetter having sexual contact with other men and teenage boys.
Detective Matthew Misener, who investigated the case for the Madison Police Department, said in November that the recordings were marked with names, dates and two-digit numbers that police suspected were the ages of the people in each video.
Some of the videos depicting sexual activity bore the names of Ledbetter's accusers in the 1996 Tippecanoe County case, Misener said.
The Indiana statute of limitations on such crimes normally is five years.
Comments
Looking critically at the number of plea bargained, dismissed, and released child molesters leads one to believe that a huge number of judges are phedophiles.
I mean, this happened 500 miles away two different times, tapes from the old charges weren't found the first time, why who knows.
what I do know is at the time, his dad was a city coucleman.
It does kind of make you wonder, doesn't it?!?! What else could a judge be thinking, when he suspends sentence (or goes very lightly) on one of these P.O.S.'s?! Are they saving space in prisons for "REAL" , dangerous criminals, like those who smoke where it's prohibited, etc? It makes me sick to see this happen, it's absolutely humilitiating when it happens here in my home state (Wis, ). HOPEFULY NOT THIS TIME!
A Society no longer interested in protecting their youngest and most innocent is finished...doomed to die.
Columbine should have been an eye opener to the entire populace.."Authorities", sworn to protect and serve...squatting around the parking lot while killers roamed freely killing children.
Those "Law Enforcement Officers"...same as the judges releasing killers and child molesters...OUGHT to be tried in their OWN COURTROOM..for corruption.