Man charged in previous criminal sexual conduct charged again

A Mapleview man already facing charges for criminal sexual conduct with a minor has been charged in a second case.

Joshua Alan Lamaack, 43, appeared Friday in Mower County District Court where he was charged with three felony counts of first degree criminal sexual conduct. Two of those are related to the victim being under 13 to 15, and the third is for the use of a dangerous weapon.

According to the court complaint, this second case arose as a result of the first case after the victim came forward upon seeing Lamaack had been charged. A Mower County Sheriff’s Office detective was alerted to this new report on Feb. 7, 2024 while he was investigating reports of past criminal reports.

In the complaint, Lamaack is alleged to have committed the assaults from the time the victim was five-years-old into the mid teens. It was also alleged that Lamaack would be physically violent and that on a few of the occasions Lamaack used a knife to threaten the victim claiming at one point that if Lamaack would go to prison he would kill the victim.

In a court filing Tuesday, Assistant County Attorney Scott Springer advised that if convicted the state would be seeking an aggravated sentence based on the age making the victim particularly vulnerable, the cruelty of the assaults and that the offense occurred in the victim’s zone of privacy.

Lamaack was also in court Friday for a pretrial hearing related to the first case where he was charged with two felony counts of first degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor, which he has pleaded not guilty to.

According to the court complaint, Lamaack has been charged with allegedly sexually assaulting a child between the ages of 11 to age 17. The child, who is now an adult, disclosed the assaults to a medical provider in September of 2021.

The victim in that case also alleged that he saw Lamaack abuse two other young boys.

Lamaack is currently out on $50,000 bail in that case. He is scheduled for a first appearance for the newest charges on Oct. 5 and a jury trial for the original charges on July 29.

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