Ypsilanti Township child molester convicted on new sexual assault charges
A convicted sex offender avoided trial Monday on new sexual assault charges by entering into a plea deal with prosecutors.
James Waxman, 49, pleaded no contest as charged to seven counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct, court officials said. Jury selection for his trial in Washtenaw County Circuit Court was to start that morning.
James Waxman
A no contest plea is not an admission of guilt, but is treated as such for sentencing purposes. Circuit Judge Archie Brown agreed to sentence Waxman to between 15 and 22 years in prison on Nov. 24.
He will not be sentenced as a habitual offender as part of his deal with prosecutors. Waxman served nearly 13 years in prison on convictions for multiple counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct before his release in 2006, prison records show.
Washtenaw County Sheriff’s deputies arrested him in May after families of two 13-year-old victims came forward about incidents dating back to February.
Waxman remains in custody at the jail pending sentencing.
Art Aisner is a freelance writer for AnnArbor.com. The news desk can be reached at news@annarbor.com or 734-623-2530.
Comments
jns131
Sat, Oct 23, 2010 : 9:41 p.m.
Send him to a California prison. He will never get out alive. California has a new prison sentence guideline for perps like these. Forever in prison. Kind of sounds nice doesn't it?
cinnabar7071
Fri, Oct 22, 2010 : 3:07 p.m.
Who knows, his first crime may have been 1st degree that he plead down. Most people never get convicted of the crime they committed
RuralMom
Fri, Oct 22, 2010 : 2:15 p.m.
Why are the prosecutors cutting deals with this molester? Why isn't he being charged as a habitual? We already know he is broken in a way that cannot be fixed, he need not ever be set free on society again.
Bradley Pearsall
Fri, Oct 22, 2010 : 12:14 p.m.
OK, he was released from prison after being convicted of 2nd degree molestation and has now graduated to 1st degree. 1st, how was he around children enough to commit 7 counts? 2nd, what was the delay in the parents coming forward? 13 years did nothing to change this creep so why does Judge Brown think that 15-20 years will be any better especially now that he has "graduated" to worse acts. This guy needs to be gone from the planet.