GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – A North Carolina man who was convicted of child enticement for interactions with children at a Wrightstown campground has been sentenced.
36-year-old Richard Davenport will serve one year in jail after pleading no contest to the 2018 charges.
He was also placed on probation for five years and will have to serve 250 hours of community service.
The criminal complaint shows Davenport had a number of encounters with children at the campground.
Davenport had pleaded no contest to causing mental harm to a child and disorderly conduct for the 2018 incidents at Apple Creek Campground.
According to the criminal complaint, on the night of Aug. 2, deputies received a call from a father who reported a man had offered his son money in the bathroom to get the boy’s sister to come meet him in the bathroom. The boy refused and told his father what happened. The father told authorities he and his friends confronted the man and chased him, later calling 911.
In an instance that occurred earlier that day, a 12-year-old girl told authorities a man tried to give her $20 and a slushy to go into a room alone with him.
Davenport denied offering the boy money in the bathroom and said a child never visited his camper that day but told investigators he did offer to buy a girl a slushy because he was just trying to be nice, the complaint says. When pressed further, Davenport admitted to investigators he thought the boy’s sister looked to be 17 or 18, adding, “you can’t tell how old they are,” the complaint reads.
