MONROE — A 20-year-old sex offender from New Glarus and was recently sentenced to eight years’ probation and jail time now faces additional punishment and sanctions for allegedly violating terms of his parole by trying to contact a victim.
The alleged infraction occurred while the defendant was at his most recent job at a major employer in Monroe, when he somehow managed to try to attempt contact the victim from one of his earlier cases via social media applications. He is not allowed to have such access on a phone.
In 2023, police had alleged that Nolan Bodenstein, then 18 but now 20, blackmailed an underage high school girl into having sex with him multiple times and exchanged explicit pictures of himself with two other teens.
He was charged with 17 counts in the case — a mixture of felonies and misdemeanors.
No contest pleas were entered in the case Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. Those pleas were on counts of felony threats to commit derogatory info, felony third-degree sexual assault, and felony expose child to harmful material. As a result of the plea agreement, the court found him guilty on the three counts. But 14 counts in his lengthy criminal complaint were dismissed but “read in” to the criminal record, including felony charges of exposing a child to harmful material, felony child abuse, and attempted possession of child pornography.
Bodenstein was a student at the high school and played on multiple athletic teams. According to a criminal complaint filed in Green County Circuit Court, Bodenstein would befriend the underage girls, even after he turned 18, and urge them to send him nude pictures of themselves.
Some of the conversations at that time were initiated on the social media app Snapchat, the same one alleged in the criminal complaint to have been used while he made the unauthorized contact detailed in the latest charges.
He is now charged with two felony counts of sex registry violation, and one misdemeanor count of resisting/obstructing a police officer. An adjourned initial appearance on the charges is scheduled for 1:15 p.m. April 30 before Circuit Judge Jane Bucher. A $5,000 signature bond was ordered on April 15.