Probation, jail-time ordered for all three
By Kellen Olshefski
Editor
Two of the three Elkhorn men charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in December 2013 were sentenced Tuesday, March 10.
All three men pleaded guilty to second-degree sexual assault charges last year.
Walworth County Circuit Court Judge James Carlson sentenced 19-year-old Braden Mann to nine months in jail, with conditional release jail time, and five years probation.
Earlier on March 10, Racine County Circuit Court Judge Allan Torhorst sentenced Gage Timmer, 19, to six months in jail in Walworth County Court, with five years probation. For Timmer, work release is allowed for the second three months of his sentence. An additional stipulation of Timmer’s sentencing is the requirement of counseling in a low-risk sex offender treatment program.
The third party, Nicholas Cook, was sentenced in January to six months in jail with work release, along with four-and-a-half years probation.
As part of their sentencing, all three men are not to have contact with the victim or her family, direct or indirect, and are not to possess or consume alcohol, controlled substances or drug paraphernalia.
All three of the men attended Elkhorn Area High School at the time of the incident. None of the three men were required to register as sex offenders. The three men were convicted on the second-degree sexual assault charges and faced as much as 40 years in prison with $100,000 fines.
According to the criminal complaints against the three men, on Jan. 8, 2014, the victim told Elkhorn Police Department Detective Thomas Bushey engaged in sexual conduct of varying levels on Dec. 21, 2013, with all three men in the basement of the home of Cook’s Centralia Street residence.
All three men admitted to being in Cook’s basement with the girl and both Timmer and Cook admitted to engaging in sexual conduct with the 14-year-old girl, according to the complaint.
