"Indecent Liberties" Case Brings Sentence {in Cheyenne}

Cheyenne Wyoming Tribune-Eagle ^ | 05-14-05 | Rule, Juliette

[Theodore R.]

Indecent liberties case brings sentence

By Juliette Rule rep9@wyomingnews.com Published in the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle

CHEYENNE - A man accused of taking indecent liberties with his children will serve six years of probation, a Laramie County District Court judge ruled Thursday.

Daniel Fresquez, 37, was accused in August of showing his children, ages 10 and 11, pornographic films. He also was accused of fondling the girl and making the boy touch his mother inappropriately while she lay in bed.

Fresquez's wife, Valerie Fresquez, also was charged with those crimes. Those charges were dismissed in December.

Fresquez pleaded guilty to two charges of indecent liberties. One count was dismissed, his attorney, Bert Ahlstrom, said.

District Judge Dan Spangler sentenced him to three years of supervised probation on each of those charges. A prison term of three to five years was suspended.

Fresquez might be reunited with his family in July as part of a Wyoming Department of Family Services plan, Ahlstrom told the court.

Fresquez apologized to his wife and children in court, expressing his remorse and regret.

He said alcohol and drug use were problems, and he "got seriously sidetracked."

Spangler was filling in for Laramie County District Judge Nicholas Kalokathis, who continues his recovery of a January health crisis.

[Theodore R.]

The article does not say how the authorities ever found out what this man did in the "privacy" of his home!

[sgtbono2002]

Let me get this straight, The kids are still with the mother? The same mother who laid in a bed while her son fondled her, but charges were dropped against her. He fondled his daughter and gets 6 years probation , which means nothing really, and now he will be reunited with his family. Yes they make a lovely family dont they?

[Jeff Head]

My guess is that one of the kids spoke up...and I am glad they did, or that someone did because apparently the man admits to it...but I am sickened by this sentence.

Those kids should be out of that home and both parents should be in jail for a long time. Slaps on the wrist like this to people with these problems, who are committing these types of crimes, very often lead to much worse crimes.

[little jeremiah]

ping to self for later pingout.

[GladesGuru]

Dear Jeff,

It is highly likely that the courts may be aware of data which you are not. Consider the fact that here in the Sheeple's Republic of FloriDUH, if a child is taken from a physically or sexually abusive family and placed in state custody, that said child is MORE LIKELY to be abused while in state custody.

There are some things which the state can't do. Raising children is one of them. In effect, the state is taxing the citizens to support a system which increases abuse, not decreases it.

The taxpayer is being billed to support Chester The Molester - somehow I am unconvinced such a situation is what either the taxpayers or their legislators wanted.

While limited state intervention in cases of child abuse is justifiable and effective, permanent removal of the child to state custody has a bad record.

In the real world of child abuse, as in the real world of politics, often we have to choose between bad and worse.

[Jeff Head]

In any case, those kids should be out of that home. The state, a church, relatives, someone could find a decent foster parent or adoptive parent that at least doesn't have a record of abuse.

I refuse to believe that there are no such options available. Simply broadcasting it in the area on local TV or radio looking for help (like is done here in Idaho) would be bound to bring forward someone less threatening than what has already occurred.

Just my own opinion on the matter. Giving the kids back to the very people who did this to them, in my mind at least, is not the answer.