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Posted: 12:25 PM May 31, 2007
Former Rice Lake Man Will Be Held In Custody Indefinitely
Barron County Circuit Judge Edward Brunner ruled this week that Fankhauser be held in a detention facility until he is no longer deemed sexually violent.
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A former Rice Lake man will be held in custody indefinitely as a sexually violent person.
Eric Fankhauser, 21, was due for release March 1, after serving 3 years in prison for 2nd-degree sexual assault of a 6-year-old boy. But the state attorney general's office filed a commitment petition against him.
Barron County Circuit Judge Edward Brunner ruled this week that Fankhauser be held in a detention facility until he is no longer deemed sexually violent.
A psychologist's report indicates Fankhauser suffers from the mental disease of pedophilia, which causes him to be attracted to children.
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