Priest pleads guilty to reduced misdemeanor charges of sex assaulting a child at Wauwatosa school

WAUWATOSA (WI)
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

October 23, 2017

By Bruce Vielmetti

[See the entry for Marsicek in BishopAccountability.org’s database of accused U.S. clergy.]

A Milwaukee priest pleaded guilty to three counts of misdemeanor sexual contact with a girl while at a Catholic school in Wauwatosa between 2007 and 2011.

Robert Marsicek, 76, who was removed from ministry in 2013, was charged in February with three felony counts of first-degree sexual assault of a child, but as a result of negotiations with prosecutors entered his pleas to fourth-degree sexual assault, a misdemeanor that involves sexual touching.

Sentencing was set for Dec. 15. He remains free on a $50,000 personal recognizance bond and conditions that he have no contact with the victim or anyone under the age of 18.

According to the original complaint, Marsicek touched the girl while at Pius X Parish and school in Wauwatosa between 2007…