A probation sentence turned into prison time when a child rapist didn't pay his therapists in Minnesota.
Minnesotan Shawn Matthew Clepper pled guilty to two counts of first degree criminal sexual conduct, after his four and five year-old children disclosed that he sexually abused them. Court records reveal Clepper also confessed to "detailed urges to sexually abuse young children."
But Clepper got special preferential treatment under Minnesota's incest loophole law, when the court found it was in the "best interests" of his victims to send him to therapy instead of prison.
Under the sentencing agreement, Clepper agreed to pay for the therapy himself.
If Clepper got the wrong idea about lenient Minnesota justice, he was soon corrected. A sex offender treatment program called Alpha Human Services gave him a quote of $27,300 for "inpatient treatment", which Clepper could not pay.
His probation was revoked and he was thrown in prison.
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