Lake County Man guilty of sexually abusing second child – Duluth News Tribune

Duluth – A Lake County man has been convicted for the second time of sexually assaulting a small child.

Michael Brian Bailey, 46, from the Brimson area, was sentenced by a jury last week for four first -degree criminal sexual behavior against a victim under 13 years.

Described by prosecutors as a “series sexual offender”, Bailey is already on probation after declaring himself in 2020 to a single position of the same crime against a young different victim. And he still faces another pending case that alleges the rape of an adult woman.

The trial of last week involved a

“Ongoing sexual assault pattern” between April 2015 and April 2019,

Everything while the victim was under 10 years old, a conduct that occurred before being accused in the first case.

The complaint establishes that the victim previously revealed the abuse to First Testing Child Advocacy Center in Duluth around the moment Bailey was accused in the other case.

However, he did not provide additional details until he met with his therapist in June 2023. In a monitoring interview with the first witness, he provided more specific details of forced sexual relations and oral sex, according to a criminal complaint.

Several reports of child sexual abuse first emerged against Bailey around 2019. In the case he was accused at that time, a victim told the authorities that he had been attacked “approximately a weekly base” for about eight years, starting when he had 5 years. years.

Later, Bailey reached an agreement with the Office of the St. Louis County Prosecutor, declared himself guilty of the first degree position, but received a deviation from the sentence guidelines that kept him out of prison. He was ordered to fulfill up to 10 years of supervised probation, with conditions that include treatment of sexual criminals, registration of predators and restitution.

The lawyers at that time indicated that the agreement was an “imperfect” commitment. While it did not result in jail, he left the victim to have to testify and resulted in a higher level sentence without the significant risk of proveing ​​the case before a jury.

Judge Shaun Flaerke said in a sentence transcript that he could not say if he was “sick or angry about that”, but that he adopted the agreement to reluctantly, pointing out that any slip could result in the execution of a prison sentence of 12 12 years.

Prosecutors have indicated that another child also received a protection order after credible Bailey of abuse. All children were known by Bailey.

The defendant, who was previously free on bail, is now detained without bail pending sentence, which was not immediately scheduled by Judge Eric Hyden.

His

Another pending case also alleges first degree criminal sexual behavior,

With a woman who told the police that “he forced her to have sex with him without her consent” in “many occasions” while they were in a relationship between 2019 and 2021.

According to the reports, the incidents included an assault in public in Brighton Beach, at the house of a relative, while others were present and during a meeting after the breakup to discuss the return of personal belongings.

Tom Olsen covers the crime and the courts and the 8th Congress District for the Duluth News Tribune since 2013. He graduated from the University of Minnesota Duluth and a resident of the whole life of the city. Readers can communicate with Olsen at 218-723-5333 or [email protected].