MONROE - A Janesville man pleaded guilty Friday in Green County Circuit Court to sexually assaulting a Monticello 13-year-old.
Kyle Lee Marcus Farage, 20, entered a plea deal on the Class C felony charge of second-degree sexual assault of a child. Class A misdemeanor charges of bail jumping and obstructing an officer were dismissed but "read in," meaning the judge is able to consider them at sentencing.
Farage's attorney, Philip Brehm, and Assistant District Attorney Laura Kohl were ready Friday to proceed to sentencing, with a joint recommendation of six years on probation and one year in jail.
Brehm gave Judge James Beer an evaluation report from Farage's psychologist, but Beer said he preferred to have the Department of Corrections do a pre-sentence investigation report on Farage.
"I don't like to sentence someone on serious matters without input from the Department of Corrections," Beer said. He ordered the pre-sentence investigation report to be completed before sentencing.
Farage's sentencing is set for Feb. 8.
The case stems from an incident Feb. 10 at a home in Monticello. The consensus of police interviews with several individuals present in the home at the time is that Farage had sex with a 13-year-old girl, according to the criminal complaint.
However, in separate interviews with police, the girl and Farage described very different narratives of what took place.
The girl told a forensic investigator that she had been asleep for about an hour that night when Farage came in the room and started pressuring her for sex. He told her that "everything will be OK" as long as she didn't say anything. At one point, he got "very angry, stomping his feet going downstairs," then later came back into the room and forcibly had sex with her, she said.
She told the investigator she was scared of Farage because he once told her that when someone stole his phone, "he shot up their house."
Farage initially denied having sex with the girl, or even kissing her, even though multiple witnesses reported seeing them kiss earlier in the evening. When the investigator presented Farage with video evidence of him purchasing condoms at Wal-Mart that night, he started crying. With tears "running down his face," the investigator reported, Farage admitted to having sex with the girl. He insisted she initiated it and "it only lasted a minute."
The age of consent for sexual activity in Wisconsin is 18.
During Beer's routine questioning of Farage at the plea hearing, Farage told the judge he was in the National Guard for three years before he was taken into custody in the case. He's been in jail since July 12 on a $5,000 cash bond and $45,000 signature bond, according to court records.
Farage was fined for disorderly conduct in a misdemeanor case out of Rock County last year but has no other prior criminal record.
Kyle Lee Marcus Farage, 20, entered a plea deal on the Class C felony charge of second-degree sexual assault of a child. Class A misdemeanor charges of bail jumping and obstructing an officer were dismissed but "read in," meaning the judge is able to consider them at sentencing.
Farage's attorney, Philip Brehm, and Assistant District Attorney Laura Kohl were ready Friday to proceed to sentencing, with a joint recommendation of six years on probation and one year in jail.
Brehm gave Judge James Beer an evaluation report from Farage's psychologist, but Beer said he preferred to have the Department of Corrections do a pre-sentence investigation report on Farage.
"I don't like to sentence someone on serious matters without input from the Department of Corrections," Beer said. He ordered the pre-sentence investigation report to be completed before sentencing.
Farage's sentencing is set for Feb. 8.
The case stems from an incident Feb. 10 at a home in Monticello. The consensus of police interviews with several individuals present in the home at the time is that Farage had sex with a 13-year-old girl, according to the criminal complaint.
However, in separate interviews with police, the girl and Farage described very different narratives of what took place.
The girl told a forensic investigator that she had been asleep for about an hour that night when Farage came in the room and started pressuring her for sex. He told her that "everything will be OK" as long as she didn't say anything. At one point, he got "very angry, stomping his feet going downstairs," then later came back into the room and forcibly had sex with her, she said.
She told the investigator she was scared of Farage because he once told her that when someone stole his phone, "he shot up their house."
Farage initially denied having sex with the girl, or even kissing her, even though multiple witnesses reported seeing them kiss earlier in the evening. When the investigator presented Farage with video evidence of him purchasing condoms at Wal-Mart that night, he started crying. With tears "running down his face," the investigator reported, Farage admitted to having sex with the girl. He insisted she initiated it and "it only lasted a minute."
The age of consent for sexual activity in Wisconsin is 18.
During Beer's routine questioning of Farage at the plea hearing, Farage told the judge he was in the National Guard for three years before he was taken into custody in the case. He's been in jail since July 12 on a $5,000 cash bond and $45,000 signature bond, according to court records.
Farage was fined for disorderly conduct in a misdemeanor case out of Rock County last year but has no other prior criminal record.