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Trial Set for Sex Offender Facing New Charges

Dennis Marth, 50, of Sussex, to go to trial in April for child enticement charges. Marth previously lived in Waukesha.

 

A trial has been set for a former Waukesha man, a convicted sex offender, who faces four felony charges accusing him of sex-related crimes about six weeks after he was released from supervision on other sex crimes.

Dennis C. Marth, 50, of Sussex, is charged four counts of child enticement in Waukesha County Circuit Court after being accused of asking young boys at Nixon Park in Hartland where the railroad tracks were and following young boys to remote areas of the park July 15.

The trial is set for April 24, according to online court records.

Hartland police found Marth sitting on a bench near two younger boys who were fishing on July 15, a criminal complaint alleges. The boys told one of the officers Marth had asked them where the railroad tracks were even though he had approached them two days earlier and done the same thing.

Marth first told officers he had come visit the park because he grew up in Hartland and was drinking that morning. He later changed his story to say he had some drinks after working third shift and had come to the park to sober up, according to the complaint.

However, police found a mug with beer in his vehicle, along with half a bottle of whiskey. He had a blood alcohol level of 0.14 percent at the time of the incident, the complaint states.

Marth is being held in Waukesha County Jail in lieu of $250,000 bail.

Judge William Domina released Marth from a mental commitment detention in May that Marth has been on since 2000. Marth was previously living at 1216 Buena Vista Ave. since 2007.

Marth is convicted twice of molesting children, according to a 2007 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article.

Marth unsuccessfully asked the Waukesha County Circuit Court to release him from supervision last summer.

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Joseph

10:55 am on Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Why do we release sex offenders in the first place?!

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