MONROE — Lafayette County authorities are prosecuting several felony sex crime cases, and many of the illegal acts alleged in those cases involve child victims.

Last Thursday, a 48-year-old Darlington man was arrested for soliciting a child for prostitution in the city, a Class D felony. According to published reports, Javier Mora-Cervantes is accused of buying young girls vaping products and offering to pay a 12-year-old girl to have sex.

According to court records, bond was set at $4,000 for the suspect and he remains in custody. He is set to appear in court on the charges on June 23. If convicted Mora-Cervantes faces up to 25 years in prison.

In another case, a Monroe man with a history of child neglect has been charged in Lafayette County with second degree sexual assault of a mentally ill person. As part of the charges, Adam Duane Bliss, 41, also faces lifetime registration as a sex offender in Wisconsin. It is unclear if he was related to the alleged victim.

In 2015, Bliss and his wife were charged with felony child neglect, after authorities alleged they kept their two toddlers in squalid conditions while living in Darlington. As a result, Bliss pleaded guilty to a disorderly conduct charge and to one count of child neglect. His wife, Nicole Bliss, records show, entered an 18-month deferred prosecution on one count of child neglect. 

That earlier case started in November of 2014 when a child abuse and neglect investigator requested that police accompany her on a visit to the Bliss home in the 400 block of Keep Street in Darlington. When police arrived, they were informed the Bliss toddlers do not get regular diaper changes and often go long stretches without eating. 

Police and the investigator reportedly went upstairs and observed uninhabitable rooms and human feces smeared across a window. 

The couple later moved to Monroe.

Meanwhile in a separate case, a Blanchardville man is facing three counts of felony child pornography possession and other charges. Logan Swiggum, 20, was scheduled to appear in court on the charges last Monday. 

Swiggum faces a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison on the child porn charges. He also was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia and felony bail jumping.

He was released on $5,000 cash bond shortly after his arrest last March. Swiggum’s next court appearance has not been set, records indicate.