MENOMINEE, MI (WTAQ-WLUK) – A former Upper Peninsula sheriff’s deputy was convicted Tuesday of another sexual assault case involving a teenager.
Brian Helfert entered a plea to attempted assault with the intent to commit sexual penetration, according to Menominee County Prosecuting Attorney Jeffrey Rogg.
Three other charges were dismissed due to the statute of limitations and when another law become effective.
Sentencing is scheduled for March 6, when an additional 12-month sentence is expected to be issued. That would bring Helfert’s total sentence to 25 months, plus five years on probation, and lifetime sex offender registration.
Rogg tells FOX 11.
“This whole episode has been a quagmire with no easy or perfect solution. The court system is not ideally suited to achieving true justice for kids, when they are forced to confront their perpetrators publicly and be forced to endure public trials and defense attorneys tearing them to pieces. Ultimately, it was and is my responsibility to do what I think is right under all the circumstances, which I did in the Helfert case and will always do in every case.”
The former school resource officer at Menominee High School allegedly targeted teen boys between 2003 and 2019.
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