A 72-year-old Wisconsin man has been sentenced to 60 months in prison for engaging in and attempting to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor in Belize.
Roland J. Flath, of Fond du Lac, Wis., was sentenced in U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Wisconsin by Judge J.P. Stadtmueller. In addition to his prison term, Flath was sentenced to 10 years of supervised release. Flath pleaded guilty before Judge Stadtmueller on May 19, 2012.
According to court documents, Flath traveled to Belize in July 2006 and subsequently sexually molested a minor girl from that country.
Flath was originally charged by a criminal complaint filed in the Eastern District of Wisconsin in October 2010. He was arrested by the Guatemalan National Civil Police on Feb. 20, 2011, expelled to the United States and arrested in the United States by ICE agents and the U.S. Marshals Service. Flath was indicted on March 22, 2011, by a grand jury sitting in the Eastern District of Wisconsin.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by U.S. Attorneys’ offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children, as well as to identify and rescue victims.
This case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Penelope Coblentz of the Eastern District of Wisconsin and Trial Attorney Mi Yung Park of CEOS. Assistance was provided by the Office of International Affairs in the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. This case is a result of investigative efforts led by ICE Homeland Security Investigations in Milwaukee and the DSS’s Regional Security Office in Belize, CEOS’s High Technology Investigative Unit, and the Belize Police Department.
The case highlights the importance of international cooperation in combating child sexual exploitation and abuse. It also demonstrates the commitment of law enforcement agencies to protect vulnerable children and bring perpetrators to justice.
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Key Facts
- State: Wisconsin
- Category: Sex Crimes|Child Exploitation|Violent Crime
- Source: DOJ Press Release ↗
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