Child Rapist Paroled Halfway Through 22-Year Sentence

(La Crosse, Wisconsin) In 1998, a 26-year-old woman, Stacey Maack, was sentenced to 22 years in prison, plus 20 years of probation, for the repeated sex assault of an 11-year-old boy.

The curious boy initiated the relationship, Maack later told a probation agent. She thought the sexual contact was legal because it was consensual, according to court documents.

“He told me things I’d never heard before. He told me he loved me. He told me I was attractive,” she said in court records. “He’s more mature than most men I’ve dated.”

Maack became pregnant in late July or early August 1996, according to the pre-sentence investigation report.

“I was like, ‘Cool. Whose kid is it?’” the victim said.

A girl born May 5, 1997, made the boy a father at age 12.

Their relationship resumed after the birth, Maack said, because she loved him.

The boy's mother, identified as Carolyn, reported Maack to the authorities after becoming suspicious. Carolyn subsequently was sentenced to a year in prison for failure to act to protect her son.

In the latest development, Stacey Maack, now 37, will be paroled after serving half of her sentence. According to a parole commission report, Maack has been a model prisoner, she has expressed remorse and recognized her selfishness, and she has learned from sex offender treatment programs.

“Continued confinement will not result in any additional changes, other than the passage of time,” the report stated.

Curiously, I was under the apparently mistaken impression that "passage of time" behind bars was the primary purpose of the penal system.