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7/11/2008
Woman who had sex with teen
banned from Amery
AMERY (AP) - A former teacher's
aide who had sex with her daughter's high school classmate has been
banished from her western Wisconsin hometown.
A judge ordered Brenda K.
Baillargeon, 40, out of Amery for the next 15 years after she
repeatedly violated court orders to stay away from the now 17-year-old
boy.
Polk County District Attorney
Daniel Steffen said the sentence was appropriate given that
Baillargeon had contacted the teen at his home, work and elsewhere in
the city of about 2,800.
"It's not common," he said.
"But where there's a clear victim and a threat, it is done."
Baillargeon also was sentenced
Thursday to one year in jail.
Judge Molly GaleWyrick told the
mother of four that if she had any contact with the boy during her
banishment, she would spend at least five years in a state prison.
"He relied on you to say,
'Stop, this is wrong,' " GaleWyrick told Baillargeon. "He is
blameless. You are not. You were 39 and he 16. It is not too much to
ask what you were thinking."
Judges have discretion in
sentencing and terms of probation, and Baillargeon's punishment could
have been worse, a Hamline University School of Law professor said.
"She has found it difficult to
discipline herself, so this is just another way of accomplishing
that," said Robin Magee, who teaches criminal law and procedure at the
St. Paul school.
Baillargeon must register as a
sex offender after entering no-contest pleas to sexual assault and
child enticement.
She did not look at the
victim's mother or family, even when she addressed them during the
sentencing hearing.
"I do realize what I did," she
said, "and I am very sorry for the hurt it has caused. I do apologize
to you in public. I think that shows I am trying to be remorseful. I
am not a sexual predator who seeks out young boys."
The teenager's mother got a
restraining order after becoming suspicious about the relationship
last fall.
Over the course of seven
months, Baillargeon had sex with the teen at his home, at his
grandfather's cabin, on a bench at a nearby park and at her cabin near
Amery, Steffen said. She also took the boy on trips and sneaked into
his home in the early morning hours for sex, court records said.
After Baillargeon got a
divorce, she and the boy planned to marry and move to North Carolina,
where the teen wanted to become a NASCAR mechanic.
There have been other cases of
banishment. A child molester was banished from his Minnesota
neighborhood in 1992. In 2003, a small Alaskan village gave a
troublemaker with a history of drunken violence a one-way ticket to
Anchorage and told him not to come back.
Source:
http://www.leadertelegram.com/story-news_local.asp?id=BH5OPOHTE47
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