GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – A Green Bay father is taking control of an issue his own way.
Posters have been placed around town warning residents of a man that Jesse Matzke is calling a sex offender.
He says he told the police his 14-year-old daughter has been a victim to the 19-year-old man, but said no action was taken.
“This summer it came to my attention through text messages that physical and sexual abuse was going on between my daughter and an adult,” he said.
Matzke said he feels like Green Bay Police are failing to protect his daughter, and the reason he decided to post the flyers around the city.
“I reported the issue and took her to the hospital and told police, but for two months nothing has happened. The other day I pull up to her apartment and this little guy is outside her bedroom window.”
Police Chief Andrew Smith says nothing has been done because no crime has been committed.
“This is a relationship that two people had, this is not someone sneaking around at night into peoples bedrooms,” said Green Bay Police Chief Andrew Smith. “This was an inappropriate relationship, but is has not resulted in criminal charges.”
Matzke says that he discovered that abuse was going on between his daughter and an adult this summer.
Police have interviewed the man in question.Smith says the man in question is innocent until proven guilty.
“We still have a presumption of innocence here. We’ve interviewed him, the person making the accusations, so we are going to continue working on the case and the district attorney to see if we can make an arrest but right now we cant,” said Smith.
“I had to do something, I just can’t do nothing. I wanted everyone to know in his community what is going on, he’s an adult and these are sixth graders. Something isn’t right,’ said Matzke.
Right now there is not a warrant for the man’s arrest.
