WAUPACA, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) — Five additional victims have come forward after a man was charged with repeatedly sexually assaulting a child at a Waupaca County campground.
According to the criminal complaint, he also babysat some of the victims at his home in Appleton.
Richard A. Klimek, 63, is now facing more charges in Waupaca County, including first degree sexual assault – sexual contact with a child under 13 and repeated sexual assault of a child. That’s where three of five newest victims told investigators the assaults happened.
An 11-year-old girl told authorities Klimek had touched her inappropriately many times between May 1, 2017, and September 2020, the complaint reads. The assaults starting happening when she was 8 or 9 years old, she told officials. She also said she had been at Klimek’s home in Appleton where he and a woman babysat her.
The third victim, a 6-year-old girl, told investigators Klimek inappropriately touched her while she was in the swimming pool at the campground on June 9, 2021. According to the criminal complaint, the family of the child recently obtained a permanent campsite at the campground and the mother told officials she was suspicious of how Klimek was always hanging around young girls and giving them rides on his golf cart. She was also aware that the children called him “uber Rick.”
The other three victims, now adults, say Klimek sexually assaulted them when they were children, younger than 12 years old, the complaint reads. All three victims say they were sexually assaulted at Klimek’s home in Appleton while he babysat them. One of the victims says she was sexually assaulted at the campground as well. No charges have been filed against him in incidents that the victims described in Outagamie County.
Last month, officials say a 12-year-old girl said she was sexually assaulted by Klimek several times at Farmer Genes Campground in the town of Dupont. Klimek had a permanent site at the campground.
Klimek appeared in court on the new charges Friday. His bond was set at $125,000 cash.
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