WILLMAR -- Larry Alan Stoeser, 61, of Willmar, pleaded guilty Monday to two felony charges of second-degree criminal sexual conduct for molesting young girls at his wife's home daycare.
As part of a plea agreement re-ached in Kandiyohi County District Court, five additional criminal sexual conduct charges against Stoeser will be dismissed and he will be sentenced to 36 months in prison. His sentencing date is July 20.
During the plea hearing Monday, Stoeser admitted to sexually touching two young girls, in separate incidents dating back to 2001, late in the evening while they were under his care at the rural Willmar home.
"Basically, everything that was in the report was true," he said, regarding allegations made by a 6-year-old girl.
The first of seven first- and second-degree criminal sexual conduct charges against Stoeser was filed Sept. 1 after the Kandiyohi County Sheriff's Office investigated a report that he had inappropriately touched a 5-year-old girl while she was at daycare. The girl had reported the touching to a parent and to her caregiver.
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Four more female victims, between the ages of 5 and 16, subsequently reported they had also been sexually assaulted by Stoeser while they were under his care at the daycare. All the allegations were similar in that the children reported Stoeser inappropriately touching them while they were napping.
The family child care license at the home Stoeser shared with his wife is listed as being "revoked - under appeal," according to the state Department of Human Services website.
