Wisconsin Teen Gets Prison in Group Home Worker Attack

“A 17-year-old former Manitowoc teen was sentenced to prison in the attack on a worker at a group home.

Manitowoc County Circuit Judge Jerome Fox sentenced Michael J. Tauschek to seven years in prison for attempted second-degree sexual assault with use of force, a felony, in the May 13, 2013, attack.

Tauschek, who was being held at the Sheboygan County Juvenile Detention Center in Sheboygan, was tried in adult court.

Police earlier said Tauschek began strangling and planned to sexually assault a female employee of a Manitowoc group home where he was living. They said that Tauschek “confessed his intent was to render (the victim) unconscious and sexually assault her.”

Police said Tauschek told them the victim struggled, pleaded to be released and he let go. She was treated at a local hospital.

Tauschek’s prison sentence will be followed by five years of extended supervision; he has credit for 471 days.

Fox on Aug. 27 also withheld the sentence for a felony strangulation and suffocation charge in connection with the attack and placed Tauschek on three years of probation, consecutive to the prison sentence and to begin after extended supervision ends.

Conditions of extended supervision and probation include no possession of any pornography, having no contact with anyone under age 18 unless approved, undergoing sex offender treatment and using a computer only at an agent’s discretion. He also was ordered to maintain full-time employment or work search, to obtain GED or HSED and have no contact with the victim.

Tauschek must pay court costs, supervision fees and restitution, if any, as well as $150.27 for blood testing. He also must submit a DNA sample and pay the surcharge, comply with the sex offender registry and take all medications as prescribed.”

Former Manitowoc teen gets prison in home worker attack[HTRVNews 9/5/14]

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