Billionaire serves only 3 months for child rape

Disambiguation · Sep 16, 2014

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Even Forbes is outraged.

The convicted child molester, worth $2.7 billion, also paid a $6,000 fine as part of his punishment for two misdemeanor charges of fourth-degree sexual assault and disorderly conduct. He pleaded guilty to both back in June.
Both charges were drastically amended; Johnson was initially charged with repeated sexual assault of a child, which is a felony.

Disambiguation · Sep 16, 2014

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In February, without warning, eldest son Curt Johnson resigned as chairman of Johnson-owned Diversey, an industrial-cleaning firm doing $3 billion in annual sales. In March the 56-year-old was charged with “repeated sexual assault of a child” over a three-year period, involving a young girl he’d known well since she was a small child. If convicted, he faces up to 40 years in prison. Curt pleaded not guilty in April. Racine is holding its collective breath for the trial to begin, probably some time next year. Much stir though the scandal has caused, few Racinians are willing to talk openly about it. Lurid fascination is tempered by fear of who might be listening in.

The Golden Rondelle at the S.C. Johnson campus. Image via

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Those questions — at issue in the criminal case against an heir to the Johnson family household products fortune — revolve around whether defendants have a constitutional right to review an alleged molestation victim’s mental health records, and what can be done when those alleged victims refuse to release their private records for a judge’s closed-door review.
According to a brief filed Friday with the state’s highest court, the three constitutional issues cited by state prosecutors are:
- Whether the Wisconsin Supreme Court should overrule a prior, lower court decision mandating that mental health records be reviewed by judges in some criminal cases, and pertinent information be released to lawyers involved in those cases.
- Whether a circuit court judge may require those mental health records to be provided, despite an alleged victim’s refusal.
- Should the Wisconsin Supreme Court justices decide that, in certain circumstances, defendants have a federal constitutional right for circuit court judges to review these mental health records and potentially disclose some personal medical information, has Johnson shown that he is entitled to a Racine County judge’s closed-door review of his stepdaughter’s therapy records.

His defense lawyers wanted to get her mental health records, she refuses, and the court decides that she can't testify unless she releases the records.

Defense lawyers contend that when the teen was attending family relationship counseling, the counselor never reported any molestation accusations, as mandated. Inferences could be made then, defense attorneys argue, that the teen didn’t talk about her stepfather sexually abusing her — which directly relates to the teen’s credibility, according to Friday’s brief.

Disambiguation · Sep 16, 2014

Despite the teen’s, her mother’s and her biological father’s failure to cooperate with prosecutors, their refusal to turn over the girl’s medical records for a judge’s private review, no psychological treatment records for Johnson, and his Arizona therapy clinic’s refusal to even divulge to Racine County prosecutors the name of Johnson’s treating therapist, Johnson was sentenced Friday to four months in the Racine County Jail.

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It gets interesting- he refuses to turn over his mental health records- he confessed to his therapist- and asks for hers. Appeals etc. Its an interesting legal case, they manipulated the legal system via the state supreme court rulings- got the court to rule on a limited question and used that to lowering of charges in order to get a conviction on anything. When he was no longer charged with a felony he plead guilty to misdemeanors, paid 6000 and apologized to the step daughter and its rumored mega $$$ to the girl and mom.

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