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NAILWOUNDS Singer Charged For Sex With Girl He Met On MySpace.com

January 22, 2007

Eric Litke of The Sheboygan Press reports:

The 20-year-old lead singer of a Milwaukee-area metal band was charged Friday (Jan. 19) with felony sexual assault for allegedly having sex with a 15-year-old Kewaskum girl after arranging the encounter on MySpace.com.

The girl had snuck out of her parents' house to meet Randall S. Shesto II (photo),20, but the two were found out when Shesto crashed his car shortly after the two of them had sex, according to a criminal complaint.

Shesto, of Waukesha, was charged in Sheboygan County Circuit Court with sexual assault of a child, which carries maximum penalties of 25 years in prison and a $100,000 fine. He was released Friday on a $1,500 cash bond.

Sheboygan County District Attorney Joe DeCecco said Shesto has confessed to the crime.

The case has parallels to that of Jason Lee — a 22-year-old Hmong man convicted Wednesday of having sex with his 16-year-old wife when she was 15 — but DeCecco said Shesto will be treated differently. Lee accepted a plea deal under which the charge will be dismissed if he stays out of trouble for a year and performs 25 hours of community service.

"This isn't some type of relationship," DeCecco said of Shesto's case. "He located a child that appeared to be somewhat vulnerable on the Internet, hooked up with her and then met her up here specifically for sex — I mean, there's no talk of marriage or love — that makes a difference to us. It shows the exploitive nature."

According to DeCecco and the complaint:

The girl told police the two met on MySpace and she knew Shesto only as RJ, though she had attended his concerts. Shesto is the lead singer of the band NAILWOUNDS, a hardcore metal band according to its MySpace Web site.

The pair's first in-person meeting was the night of the alleged assault.

Shortly after 1 a.m. Jan. 12, Shesto picked up the girl and drove to a remote area in the Town of Scott, where he pulled off the road into a field entrance and the two had consensual sex in the back seat of his car.

Read the rest of the article at The Sheboygan Press.

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