Fond du Lac, WI (WTAQ) – The state says it will no longer try to place a Milwaukee sex offender in a small town in Fond du Lac County.
But the county’s chief prosecutor says a judge could still make that move.
Local authorities objected after the state asked that 51-year-old Clint Rhymes be placed in Eldorado (el’-deh-ray’-do) following his release from a treatment center.
He was convicted 27 years ago of sexually assaulting a woman, beating her with a tire-iron, and leaving her to die.
Fond du Lac County Sheriff Mick Fink says it’s okay for local offenders to move back.
But he and District Attorney Eric Toney say they won’t put up with the state moving sex convicts there from elsewhere in Wisconsin.
Rhymes’ attorney has said there’s no place for him to go in Milwaukee County, due to a number of local ordinances that prohibit sex offenders from living in most locations there.
The state has asked for 90 more days to give Rhymes a new home.
