WISCONSIN
WBAY
By Natalie Arnold
The victim in a clergy sexual assault case angrily walked out of a Brown County courtroom Thursday when his abuser was sentenced. Father James Stein was sentenced to one year in the county jail.
His victim, Mark Hodek, and his family asked the judge to give the Catholic priest at least five years in a state prison for sexually assaulting him when Hodek was 14 years old.
Stein faced three charges of second-degree sexual assault against a child. He pleaded no contest to one, and the other two were dismissed.
Hodek waited 16 years for this day to see Father Stein finally punished, but he couldn't bear to sit for one more second during the priest's sentencing, bursting from the courtroom to a nearby elevator.
Posted by kshaw at December 16, 2004 07:06 PM