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Sex offender allegedly tells on self
Defendant now charged in Rock, Green Counties
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MONROE — An area man has been charged with felony child sex crimes that he allegedly committed as a 13- or 14-year-old babysitter in Green County — a crime for which he allegedly implicated himself during a more recent child sex crime investigation in Rock County.

The defendant also is facing felony child sex charges in Rock County.

Charged with the crimes is David Andrew Christopher Edmondson, now 30, of Albany. In Green County Circuit Court, he faces three counts of child enticement, a Class D felony in Wisconsin, and a single count of first-degree child sexual assault — contact with a child under 13, a Class B felony.

In Rock County, Edmondson is charged with a single count of felony first degree child sex assault — sexual contact or sexual intercourse with a person under age of 13.

The charges arose when authorities here were contacted by Rock County investigators, who told them that the defendant willingly, allegedly described the early Green County crimes to them while investigating their own child sex case. It involved a situation in Janesville, in which Edmondson was alleged to have had relations with an eight-year-old female victim.

“(The victim) disclosed at school that a man had touched her inappropriately at home…,” said the criminal complaint, in the Rock County Case. “While at school, (she) told staff ‘Something happened at home’ and, as a result, someone had to leave the house because they had touched (the victims) in ‘two inappropriate spots.’”

In the Green County matter, investigators allege that he touched child victims while babysitting them down the street from the family’s Albany home on or around August 2008.

“Edmondson reported that he was 13 or 14 and was baby-sitting one of the neighbors down the street,” said the criminal complaint. “Edmondson advised that while he was there ‘I pulled down my pants and showed them my parts.’”

However, he denied to investigators ever touching children in the criminal complaint.

In the Green County case alone, he could face up to more than 130 years in prison if convicted. He remains in custody in Rock County jail, according to court records.