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Home›Court Appearances›Teen Sex Assault Case to Move Forward, Judge Says

Teen Sex Assault Case to Move Forward, Judge Says

By STEVENS POINT NEWS
August 19, 2016
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By Brandi Makuski

The judge overseeing a teen sex assault case has determined prosecutors did not intentionally delay filing charges, and the case will move forward.

Portage Co. Judge Thomas Eagon denied a request from the lawyer of Joseph Butler, 17, to dismiss charges of felonious second-degree sexual assault. Butler’s lawyer previously accused the Portage Co. District Attorney’s Office of intentionally delaying charging Butler until he could be tried as an adult.

Eagon didn’t agree, saying there was no evidence of an intentional delay, and said there is enough probable cause to continue moving the case forward.

According to the criminal complaint, Butler admitted to having sex twice with a 16-year-old girl who had passed out “a couple of times” during a party on the 3000 block of Minnesota Ave. on Oct. 11, 2015.

The girl was seen the following morning at Ministry St. Michael’s Hospital, at time which the police were notified.

She told police she’d been drinking cherry-flavored vodka at the party, and when she woke the next morning her arms and pubic region were sore. She told police she couldn’t remember everything that happened the night before, but did remember saying, “no, no”, according to the complaint.

Witnesses from the party told police the girl was seen stumbling and falling as she tried to walk, hitting her head on the ground at one point. She was later carried into a bathroom because she was sick, and later taken to a bedroom to sleep, where a friend at the party thought she had locked the door.

Witnesses later told police Butler and another boy were seen trying to convince a third boy to enter with them into the room where the girl was passed out.

Another boy claims he had sex with the girl “for 10 seconds”, then exited the room and high-fived Butler before Butler went into the girl’s room, according to the complaint.

Butler, who also was 16 at the time of the party, also admitted to taking the girl’s car while she was asleep along with another boy, according to the complaint, sometime between midnight and 3 AM. Butler told police the other boy, who was identified in the complaint only by his initials, drove the car recklessly by “speeding, taking corners fast and being an idiot”. Butler maintains he was only a passenger in the car, alleging the engine was “smoking” when they returned the vehicle.

The girl discovered Butler’s SPASH identification card in her vehicle the following day.

Butler’s arraignment is scheduled for 10 AM on Oct. 17.

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