A Burlington teenager – who admitted to police he was already on probation for having sex with an underage female – is now charged with felony sexual assault after having sex with two 15-year-olds.
Dave Fenlon, 17, was charged last week in Racine County Circuit Court with three counts of second-degree sexual assault of a child under the age of 16.
The three charges carry a maximum $100,000 fine and 40 years in prison for each offense.
According to information from interviews conducted by City of Burlington police, two separate 15-year-old girls allegedly admitted to having sex with Fenlon. In the first case, both the girl and Fenlon said the sex – which included intercourse and oral sex – was consensual.
In the case of the second girl, which according to the interview was Fenlon’s current girlfriend, she denied having intercourse but admitted to having oral sex. Fenlon said the relationship was consensual.
The criminal complaint stated that both incidents allegedly occurred in a basement bedroom that Fenlon occupies in an apartment on Chapel Terrace. He allegedly told police that with the first girl, he told her it would “be best not to mention this to anyone,” and that he knew why police had come to speak with him, “because I had sex with (the victim) who is underage.”
Fenlon allegedly also told police he didn’t want to admit to any of this because he was on probation already for having sex with an underage female – and while on probation, had sex with another underage female.
Fenlon was later released on a $250 cash bond – and a $5,000 signature bond – and is scheduled to make his first appearance in court Dec. 23.
As a condition of his bond, Fenlon was also required to submit a DNA sample.
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I love how you guys neglected to say that he was 16 when this happened and they wait until he turned 17 to charge as an adult. Also none of the parents of the girls actually filed a complaint or pressed charges. Also he didn’t it known he was cheating on his girlfriend not because of his probation.
Please put the correct facts in a statement such as this, including the age at which it happened (when he was 16), and that no one wanted to intentionally file charges because guess what, they’re TEENAGERS. Some teenagers have sex. This has happened oh, forever. If Racine County has nothing better to do than pester people who smoke pot and butt into the lives of teenagers, then FIND something that actually requires your attention. You also forgot to mention that the warrant was issued AFTER he turned 17 so he could be charged as an adult, rather than as a juvenile at the time it actually occurred. I’m questioning how that was possibly legal. Any thoughts?
The facts are as reported in the criminal complaint filed in Racine County Circuit Court, and is available through the open records law. That report is what the story was written off of.
I would just like to say that as a close relative of this boy, I find this article very painful to read…. He has always been a good person in so many ways, it is not fair to judge him on this one issue… this article reads like sensationalism, something from the National Enquirer, it is also poorly written and distorts the facts. He is a teenager and male…. that speaks for itself, I would think. The young ladies involved were not exactly nine-year-olds, playing with dollies….they knew exactly what they were doing. I also feel that this is behavior based on the double standard in our society, which teaches boys from a VERY young age that to be a “stud” is a desirable thing…. and most teen boys will not ask a girl for her birth certificate before crawling into bed with her. Not to mention that he was pulled out of class, publicly humiliated, and isolated by the police who proceeded to question, and outright lie to him, regarding cell phone messages, without his parents or counsel present. I also question the legality of this and I believe it is called “entrapment”…. it may be the law, but it is NOT justice. I am beginning to be very sorry that I ever moved back to the Nanny State that Wisconsin seems to have become.