A serial child predator who served just one year in 1986 has gotten another one-year sentence for preying on a young girl for five years.
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William Vere Curtis, 49, was charged last year by Minnesota authorities with two counts of criminal sexual conduct in the first degree and two in the second degree. Prosecutors say he sexually abused a girl for five years, beginning when she was nine years old, according to the Isanti County News.
Curtis pleaded guilty to the two lesser charges in January, and Judge P. Hunter Anderson stayed his prison term in favor of 365 days in jail, which “may be furloughed to sex offender treatment and may serve his sentence under the Huber or STS programs.”
The paper says Curtis was ordered to attend sex offender therapy in 1986.
Minnesota sexual assault laws do not apply equally to all perpetrators or victims. An intentional loophole allows judges to stay, or waive, prison time if it is deemed to be “in the best interest of the complainant or the family unit; and… a professional assessment indicates that the offender has been accepted by and can respond to a treatment program.” Minnesota sentencing guidelines call for a prison sentence of seven and a half years for second degree criminal sexual conduct.
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