Bruce A. Perry - Repeat Sex Offender - The Pedophile who couldn't help himself

Perry was convicted of sexually assaulting a 9-year-old girl in 1988

He told police he committed the sexual assaults to relieve stress, adding that he is a diagnosed pedophile and can’t help himself.

A Sheboygan sex offender who repeatedly molested two girls — one of them dating back to 2004 — will be sentenced today on charges that could put him behind bars for 50 years.

Bruce A. Perry, 53, of 1625 Knollcrest Drive, was convicted of two counts of repeated sexual assault of a child after pleading no contest as part of an agreement eliminating the possibility of a life sentence.

He is scheduled for sentencing at 2:30 p.m. before Judge Gary Langhoff.

Perry was convicted of sexually assaulting a 9-year-old girl in 1988, so both of the charges were originally filed in January with an enhancer that mandated a life prison term under the state’s two strikes law for child sex offenses. But the charge was amended to remove the enhancer May 10 when Perry entered no contest pleas to both counts, court records show.

Perry has been in jail since his arrest on a $100,000 cash bond.

A criminal complaint said Perry sexually assaulted a now-18-year-old girl starting in 2004 and a now-14-year-old girl starting in March 2008. The assaults continued until Perry’s arrest in January.

The younger girl said Perry repeatedly forced her to strip, then stood and watched or made her sit on his lap, the complaint said. Perry admitted to those incidents and said he also touched the girl inappropriately beneath her clothes numerous times.

The older girl said Perry touched her inappropriately every week for about five years, but she kept quiet out of fear.

The investigation began in January when police received a report from a children’s organization where a worker had learned of the younger girl’s sexual assaults.

Perry has also confessed to molesting another girl who is now in her 20s, but no charges have been filed related to her. He told police he committed the sexual assaults to relieve stress, adding that he is a diagnosed pedophile and can’t help himself.

Perry’s prior offense, which involved a stepdaughter from a prior marriage, resulted in a year in jail and 10 years probation.

"25% of all sex offenders re-offend within 15 years"
.........Sarah Tofte

"On average most sex offenders are never caught again for a new sex offense, after five years, between 10 and 15 percent of sex offenders are detected, often convicted, of committing a new sex offense. If you follow them for ten years the rates go up somewhat, if you follow them as long as we’ve been able to follow them, which is about 20 years, the rates go up to somewhere between 30 to 40 percent of the total sample will eventually be caught for a new sex offense."

Dr. R. Karl Hansen