Milana Doné
RACINE — A Racine man pleaded not guilty Thursday in connection to accusations of noncompliance with sex offender requirements and sexually assaulting a minor.
Paul Shelton, 44, faces one count of failing to update information as a sex offender, one count of registered sex offender intentionally photograph a minor without consent, one count of knowingly failing to notify school of sex offender status and three counts of misdemeanor bail jumping.
Shelton also is charged with one count of causing mental harm to child, one count of exposing genitals to a child, one count of intentionally contribute to delinquency, one count of expose child to harmful material, one count of repeated sexual assault of same child and one count of incest with child by stepparent.
The bail jumping and knowingly failing to notify school of sex offender status charges are misdemeanors. The others are felonies.
According to a criminal complaint, Shelton reportedly filmed children at a local school without parental consent on multiple occasions.
Racine County Sheriff’s Office investigators also found a Facebook account that Shelton reportedly claimed as his own. According to the complaint, Shelton did not report the account to the Wisconsin Sex Offender Registry Program, and he reportedly said he was unaware that he needed to.
Additionally, the complaint alleges Shelton sexually assaulted an 11-year-old girl on multiple occasions from 2017-22.
During this time, the complaint states, Shelton and the girl’s mother also allegedly provided the girl with drugs.
Shelton was charged alongside his wife, 43-year-old Dana Kozeluh, who is facing four charges related to failing to protect a child from harm.
The charges include failure to act in sexual assault of a child, exposing a child to harmful material as a party to a crime, felony intent to contribute to the delinquency of a child as a party to a crime and causing mental harm to a child.
The complaint alleges Kozeluh did not interfere to stop Shelton during multiple occasions where he allegedly sexually assaulted a child between 2017-22.
Kozeluh pleaded not guilty on June 18.
Shelton and Kozeluh are each scheduled for a status conference in October.
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