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	Former Rochester Church Youth Leader Imprisoned for Sexual Assault By Janice Gregorson The Post-Bulletin April 8, 2010 http://www.postbulletin.com/newsmanager/templates/localnews_story.asp?z=2&a=446674 A 67-year-old Stewartville man, once active as a church youth leader, now is in prison for sexually assaulting a teenage boy in 2006.Gordon J. Stiles was sentenced March 30 in Fond du Lac County Circuit Court in Fond du Lac, Wis., to 15 years in prison. Prosecution of the case actually started in Rochester, according to court records. Rochester police were called in February 2008 by the youth pastor at Calvary Evangelical Free Church, who reported that Stiles, who worked in youth ministry at the church, had told him he had molested a boy 20 to 30 years earlier. The pastor said Stiles also admitted to molesting a 13-year-old boy both in Rochester and Waupun, Wis. Two days later, Stiles met with police and gave a statement about sexual molestation of four teenage boys at different times. The complaint says one involved abuse of a teen 25 years ago; another was the abuse of the 13-year-old in 2006; a third involved a teen on a canoe trip at the Boundary Waters when he went with a youth group; and the fourth involved abuse of a 14-year-old boy. That investigation led to criminal charges in Olmsted District Court. Stiles was charged in July 2008 with four counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct and one count of fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct, all felonies. He pleaded guilty Oct. 21, 2008, to four of the five counts and was sentenced on March 25, 2009, by Judge Jodi Williamson. She stayed execution of a 91-month prison term, putting him on probation for 25 years and ordering him to serve six months in jail and do 500 hours of community work service. Rochester police, after talking to Stiles in February 2008, called the Waupun Police Department with information that Stiles had provided about the sexual abuse of one of the teens in Rochester and at a home in Waupun in the spring and summer of 2006. Stiles was charged in Fond du Lac County Circuit Court on July 1, 2009, with two counts of second-degree sexual assault of a child younger than 16. Stiles pleaded guilty to one count on Jan. 6 and a second count was dismissed. He was sentenced March 20 to 15 years in prison and four years of extended supervision after his release. Circuit Court Judge Robert Wirtz also ordered him to register as a sex offender, attend sex offender treatment, have no contact with any person younger than 18 and no contact with the victim. He also is not to attend religious services without approval.
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