Kelly Rosemore is accused of traveling from North Dakota to Brown County and twice sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl. (Photo source: Brown County Sheriff's Office)
(WTAQ-WLUK) — A man who groomed and sexually assaulted a teenager in the Green Bay area was sentenced Thursday to three decades in prison.
Kelly J. Rosemore, 43, of North Dakota, will spend 30 years behind bars, followed by life on supervised release. He pleaded guilty to child enticement and committing a felony sex offense against a minor as a registered sex offender.
Authorities say Rosemore was required to register as a sex offender due to a previous felony sex offense against a minor in 2010.
In late 2023, Rosemore met a 14-year-old Wisconsin female online and groomed her for months, unbeknownst to the girl’s family. That included sending her sexually explicit messages and photos.
Despite knowing the girl was underage, Rosemore twice traveled to the Green Bay area, in March and April 2024, where he rented hotel rooms and sexually assaulted the teen. Officials say his actions were violent, such as restricting her breathing, restraining her wrists and taking sexually explicit pictures of her while she was blindfolded.
The girl reported the assaults to the Brown County Sheriff’s Office. After returning to North Dakota, Rosemore sent his victim a sexually explicit photo of her that she did not know he had taken and he threatened to extort her.
Rosemore was arrested after a coordinated investigation between the Brown County Sheriff’s Office and North Dakota Bureau of Criminal investigation. Incriminating evidence was obtained from Rosemore’s phone and vehicle.
He was extradited to Wisconsin and has since remained in custody.
At Rosemore’s sentencing hearing, the judge “emphasized that Rosemore was previously convicted and sentenced to prison for the same conduct, and that he had again targeted a child, whom he repeatedly and cruelly sexually assaulted. The judge said that Rosemore’s conduct called for a lengthy prison term to achieve just punishment, deterrence, and protecting the public.”
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