A 37-year-old Manitowoc man appeared today before Manitowoc Circuit Court Judge Patrick Willis for his initial court proceeding on five felonies after he allegedly sexually assaulted two juvenile girls between 2005 and 2008, according to the criminal complaint filed Feb. 6.
Michael E. Stites also is accused of forcing two adolescents to perform sex acts in 2004 while he critiqued them, according to the criminal complaint.
According to the criminal complaint:
- The alleged assaults were reported to a Manitowoc County Sheriff’s Department detective Jan. 29. A woman provided a DVD she had found of an assault to the detective Feb. 4.
- Stites admitted to the detective that he had sex with one of the girls for 18 months and oral sex with the other girl for one year.
- He told the detective that he had a problem and couldn’t control himself. He said he didn’t force either girl but asked their permission.
Stites is a registered sex offender after being convicted in 1999 of three counts of sexually assaulting a child in Brown County. He was sentenced to eight years in prison. He was released in 2004 after serving the maximum time amount under old laws, Assistant District Attorney Jerilyn Dietz.
Stites is serving probation for his Brown County offenses.
The mandatory penalty for Stites’ charges is life in prison, Dietz said.
Stites will be back in court for his preliminary hearing at 3 p.m. Feb. 19. He remains in jail in lieu of $50,000 cash bail.
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