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Cotter charged with invading privacy
Steven Cotter
Steven Cotter

LANCASTER — A Darlington man already facing 20 felony sex crime charges in Lafayette County is now charged with an additional felony case in Grant County alleging privacy invasion.

Steven H. Cotter, 24, is charged in Grant County Circuit Court with capturing an intimate representation, a felony, and invading privacy using a surveillance device, a misdemeanor, stemming from an incident in December 2016. His next court date in the case is a Dec. 23 status conference.

Cotter was charged in February in Lafayette County with felony counts of second-degree sexual assault of a child, using a computer to facilitate a child sex crime, child enticement, child porn possession, child sexual exploitation and exposing genitals to a child, as well as a misdemeanor count of sex with a child age 16 or older.

The case is related to alleged sex with a Monroe teenager and sexually explicit images of underage girls found on his phone, according to court records.

Cotter is under bond conditions to have no contact with the Monroe teenager or anyone younger than 18 excluding family members and no access to social media, cell phone or text messaging accounts for the purpose of exchanging photos. He’s also ordered not to leave Wisconsin except for work in Dubuque, Iowa, and for family gatherings.

He is next in Lafayette County Circuit Court for a Dec. 9 status conference.