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Man gets 8-year sentence for sex assault of teen
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MONROE - A Janesville man was sentenced last week in Green County Circuit Court to three years in prison and five years on extended supervision for sexually assaulting a Monticello teen.

Kyle Lee Marcus Farage, 21, entered a plea deal in December 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 was able to consider them at sentencing on Feb. 8.

Conditions of Farage's sentence include lifetime supervision as a sex offender and completing sex offender classes and all treatment or counseling deemed appropriate by the Department of Corrections.

The case stems from an incident Feb. 10, 2017, 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 girl seven years his junior, according to the criminal complaint.

However, in separate interviews with police, the girl and Farage described very different narratives of what happened.

The girl told a forensic investigator that she had been asleep for about an hour that night when Farage came into the room and started pressuring her for sex. He told her that "everything will be OK" as long as she didn't say anything. He got "very angry, stomping his feet going downstairs" at one point, then later came back 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.

Farage was fined for disorderly conduct in a misdemeanor case out of Rock County last year but has no other prior criminal record.