From jsonline: Billionaire Johnson heir gets brief jail term in sex assault case
After three years of pre-trial litigation that went all the way to the Wisconsin Supreme Court — twice — a Racine County billionaire who had been facing felony charges he sexually assaulted a girl pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors.
The victim in the case had moved to North Carolina, said she wished the case would be dismissed, and fought legal efforts to make her come to Wisconsin to testify.
Samuel Curtis “Curt” Johnson III, was charged in 2011 with indecently touching a girl when she was between ages 12 and 15. Johnson, 59, is an heir to the S.C. Johnson household products company fortune.
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Johnson was sentenced to four months in jail with Huber privileges after 60 days and fined $6,000. He will not have to register as a sex offender.
Several of Johnson’s relatives, including his mother, were present, though none spoke. The victim’s mother was also present, but also made no statement to the court.
The facts as reported are accurate but very incomplete. Mysteriously so since they are easily available on-line.
Note that this child was sexually molested over a period of at least three years. Not by a stranger. In the home. This molestation was reported to the authorities by a counseling therapist (psychiatrist, psychologist, MFCC), a legal requirement, that was told of the abuse by either the perpetrator or the victim. There is no recovery from long-term sexual abuse. It’s with a victim for her/his entire life.
The victim is Mr. Johnson’s step-daughter. She would have been four or five years old when her mother married Mr. Johnson. She has three younger sisters (half-siblings).
Her mother describes herself as:
I’m a redeemed child of God and the momma to four vivacious daughters. I’m passionate about finding hidden blessings in the trials of life, living it out in an honest and open way, while encouraging those around me to believe in better.
As for divorce, she says that God has called me to stay.
Their new $3.4 million, lakefront home in North Carolina has made for a new lifestyle that the family has eased into. But money and/or God can’t heal fractured family bonds of trust.
For the sake of all her children, hope that God now tells Ms. Johnson not to stay.
The Johnson Foundation at Wingspread “Our mission is to be a catalyst for positive and lasting change leading to healthier environments and communities.”
Clean Water is No Accident
Environmental champions? Maybe not:
I am against sex offender registries, but what possible reason is it that he was not forced to register as such? Especially when teenagers who engage in “sexting” with one another can get put on such registries…
Can only guess that it was part of the plea deal. It may possibly have been determined that he is at low risk for the general public for re-offending.
No money: Nicole Ethel McMillen Gets 3 Years for Sex with Son’s 14 y.o. Friend and Her Friend’s 16 y.o. Son
Victims were two to four years older than Mr. Johnson’s victim. But in McMillen’s case, there were two victims.
I don’t want to be flippant, but this is every teenage boy’s dream, while I greatly doubt the Johnson matter is
everyany teenage girl’s dream.Understand. However, it’s also one that adult women should know better than to make it come true. Even if it’s a positive experience for nine out of ten boys, the harm to the tenth boy is too high a price for society as a whole not to outlaw it.
I value having grown up during a period when statutory rape was enforced well enough that underage girls and adult men appreciated the consequences. That “she asked for it” wasn’t a defense. Suspect, but can’t prove, that it also limited sexual contact between adult women and underage boys and that if news reports are reasonably accurate, the incidence rate seems to be rising and haven’t heard any questioning as to why.
The real harm in these adult woman – teen age boy relationships is that it seems that often the women want to control the boy and prevent him from having a normal relationship with girls their own age. That goes beyond wanting some good sex with a young stud that can be trained (and no one has stamina like a 16 year old, testosterone levels are peaking) into something sick and freaky like that guy in Ohio who kidnapped those three women as sex slaves. As for women and preteen boys, that’s as sick as the gender reversed situation.
That control element by the adult in an adult-teen (and I assume we’re speaking of 16-17 year old teens) sexual relationship isn’t a element unique to adult female and male teen. More harmful for a teen because they have fewer legal rights in addition to less power than an adult. The dynamic in an eighteen year old teen and thirty year old woman relationship wouldn’t necessarily be different than that of a seventeen year old — except it’s not illegal.
Girls and boy develop crushes on teachers and other adults. That’s normal. Psychologically healthy and mature adults don’t indulge teens in actualizing those fantasies.
Let’s hope that God calls both Johnson and his wife home soon.
No. That would place an even heavier burden on their children. Less God, a lot less, for Mom would be helpful. As would divorce and non-religious, non-patriarchal individual and family counseling. What I didn’t mention in the diary is that there is a high incidence of alcoholism in the Johnson family, apparently including the S “Curt” Johnson. That combined with the sexual abuse of the eldest daughter could easily make their younger girls vulnerable to alcohol and drug abuse when they get a bit older.
Just to reiterate for those that didn’t read the referenced articles:
The details who and why the move to North Carolina was orchestrated won’t be publicly disclosed. What is known is:
S. Curtis Johnson III and Tracie Stier-Johnson remain married. She has publicly claimed that she is committed to her marriage and is working through the difficulties. Will leave it to others to speculate on whether this is true or a legal ploy until the charges against her husband were settled.
Again, the victim’s mother is Mr. Johnson’s wife.
The charges and final disposition of this case (given the victim’s preference not to testify, living out of state, and the continuing marriage of the parents) wouldn’t be unusual in many states. In California until 2006, there was an incest exemption to sexual abuse laws.