Hearing held but decision to wait on placement of sex offender in Wheatland

No decision immediately followed a hearing held Tuesday in Racine regarding the placement of a child sex offender in a Wheatland house.

Judge Allan Torhorst heard arguments Tuesday morning from Kenosha County, Sheriff David Beth, a Sheriff’s Department detective, a neighbor of the house who has a 1-year-old child and the Kenosha County victim witness coordinator as well as a representative of the state Department of Health Services Supervised Release program.

Torhorst said he would inform both sides of his decision.

The case relates to the state’s proposed placement of Michael McGee of Racine County in a Wheatland house in the 32200 block of Highway 50 starting May 20. McGee is part of the state Department of Health Services Supervised Release program. The state had not been able to find a residence for McGee in Racine County and was ordered by a Racine County judge to look in Kenosha County. The state contacted the landlord of the Highway 50 home because they had used it for sex offenders before and found it was available.

But local government and law enforcement officials mobilized to block the placement, in part because a one year old lives next door to the subject property.

Note: We expect to have more coverage of this story later, either added here are in a new post. Check back! — DH

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