Man Groomed 5 Year Old To Use His MOUTH As A Toilet!!
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Richard Zeier didn’t consider it abuse when Catholic Church clergy molested him as a child and he didn’t see anything criminal about three bizarre encounters he had later in life with a young boy.
Those beliefs were revealed Thursday at Zeier’s sentencing hearing, where St. Croix County Circuit Court Judge Scott Needham reminded the New Richmond man that not only did his acts with a 5-year-old boy represent crimes, but some of the most severe under state law.
Zeier was convicted by a jury in September of three counts of first-degree child sexual assault. Only two crimes are classified as more severe in all of Wisconsin’s criminal code — one of which is first-degree intentional homicide.
The saga, which involved three 2014 incidents of Zeier having a boy urinate into his mouth, “made our life hell,” said the grandmother of the victim.
“Now I feel it’s time for him to pay,” she told the judge before the sentencing.
Needham fielded varying recommendations for the 70-year-old man’s fate, from prison to probation. After weighing the criteria that steer sentencing outcomes in Wisconsin, Needham concluded that probation would detract from the seriousness of the offense and sentenced Zeier to three and-a-half years in prison.
The sentence calls for Zeier to spend another eight years on extended supervision and to be placed on the sex offender registry for life.
Prison was St. Croix County Assistant District Attorney Ed Minser’s recommendation, saying the “exceptionally serious” nature of the charges called for “eye-for-an-eye” justice.
“These are startling facts,” the prosecutor said, describing Zeier’s playtime in a pool with the boy and the purchasing of gifts for the child as attempts to “groom” him for abuse.
Defense attorney Aaron Nelson bristled at Minser’s punitive approach to the case and evoked the names of Jesus Christ, Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi as historical figures who all rejected the notion of an eye for an eye.
“I don’t know if there is a statement I would oppose more than that statement,” Nelson said, responding to Minser’s assertion.
He said his client took no sexual gratification from the three incidents, which Nelson said led to impressions among pre-sentence investigators that Zeier hadn’t shown remorse for his crimes.
“Other people have decided what his intent was,” Nelson said, referring to the jury’s verdict. “He can’t get beyond that.”
Rather, Nelson said Zeier suffers from mental illness and a feeling that he was being persecuted for his sexual orientation.
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3.5 years in jail, eight years on extended supervision, and to be placed on the sex offender registry for life is a very lenient sentence for these vile acts!! The poor child who was forced to PISS in this man’s mouth has to be scarred for life.. It’s sad that this man pretty much kept the cycle of molestation going, the clergy groomed him and in return later in life he groomed another boy for his sick and twisted fantasies.. What a sick fuck!!!
source:piercecountyherald.com
