EAU CLAIRE, WI (WTAQ) – A Wausau man is ordered to stand trial for trying to arrange sex with an underage girl in Eau Claire County, just three days after he faced a similar charge in his home county of Marathon.
29-year-old Griffin Waldinger is scheduled to enter pleas March 2nd to six Eau Claire charges that include child enticement, sex assault, and obstructing and attempting to flee police.
Authorities say he met whom he thought was a teenage girl online — and when he planned to meet her, the person turned out to be a police officer.
Officials say Waldinger then fled and crashed his vehicle.
The arrest came soon after he was ordered to stand trial for a similar child enticement case in his home county 80 miles to the east — and a plea hearing for that has yet to be scheduled.
(Story courtesy of Wheeler News Service)
