8 Child Predator Bill Ideas, Only One Legislator Responded

We sent this to the nearly the one dozen legislators who represent us in Washington County. Only Republican Karin Housley from the Forest Lake and Stillwater area responded with interest. (More on that later). Please send this to your legislators if you agree MN child sex offender laws and sentencing guidelines need to change. 

Washington County Watchdog is a free facebook page that primarily posts stories about each convicted child predator in Washington County. It's citizen volunteer run, we make no money, we're not lobbyists, just regular people. It is fb.com/wcwatchdog we have 14,000 readers and 1.5 million views on our page wcwatchdog.blogspot.com. Our top 10 stories (on left sidebar of page) are of local child rapists walking away with weak sentences. This is because MN laws are so broken. Please review our 8 bill ideas and let us know if you can write a bill to address the following issues. We think it'd be amazing for your re-election to do something on this. 

Table of contents:

This is based of our experience from our ongoing articles with dozens of sex offender cases documented for public awareness from public data:

Watchdog Review of Each of the Fifty States Sex Offender Laws Finds Minnesota Ranked the Most Unsafe

A.) review of Washington County Watchdog successes since 2015 with legislators on sex offender bills

B.) 26 states require Life Registration of all 3 levels of sex offenders. 47 states post most if not all levels of sex offender data 

C.) Sex offender bill ideas. They break down into the following 3 categories

-Taking child prostitution out of adult prostitution law to make it it's own law to escape weak sentencing guidelines 

-Make the sex offender registry public with exact addresses of sex offenders as it is in 47 other states

-Add specific sex crimes against a minor have to register as a predatory offender (ideally every crime)

-Fix weak Sentencing Guidelines

A.)

Since 2015 we have worked with Democrats and Republicans on this bipartisan effort with the following successes:

1.) Make the punishment for soliciting a child for prostitution (real or at a sting) the same for any age child. (previous law had less severe punishments, up to half, for children of older age). Current punishment is still only a slap on the wrist, $50 fine, and couple years on the sex offender registry (per weak sentencing guidelines).

2.) Make those who are convicted of soliciting a child for prostitution (real or at a sting)  609.352.2a(1) have to register on the predatory sex offender registration by adding it to 243.166 . 

3.) Adding "or agreeing to hire minor to engage in prostitution" to MN 609.324 so that not only those who actually hire a real minor are punished... but also those who attempt to hire one in a police sting or otherwise.

4.) DOUBLING the punishment for Child trafficking from 10years/$20,000 to a max of 20year/$40,000. Sentencing guidelines make this powerless. 

5.) Make "agreeing to hire minor to engage in prostitution MN 609.3241a" have to register as a sex offender if convicted. Added it to  243.166

B.) 

26 States have Life Registration for every level of sex offender. All but 3 States post that data (including exact address) publicly that is MN, DC, and Main.  

C.)

In brief our remaining bill ideas are:

1.) Fix the terribly weak sentencing guidelines for child sex trafficking by separating them from adult prostitution law MN 609.324.

2.) Make sex offender lists that currently only law enforcement can view into public data anyone can find (most other states do this)13.82  Comprehensive Law Enforcement data Subd. 22.Data on registered criminal offenders.and 243.166  Registration of Predatory offenders

3.)Make "engage sexual communication with a minor 609.352.2a(2)" have to register as a sex offender if convicted. (add it to this law:  243.166)

4.) Make "Distribute via Electronic Communication Material that Relates/Describes Sexual Conduct to a Child, Minnesota Statute: 609.352.2a(3)," have to register as a sex offender if convicted. (add it to this law: 243.166)

5.) Make "Interferes with the privacy" of a minor 609.746.1(e)(2)  have to register as a sex offender if convicted by adding it to 243.166. Was a bill in 2017: HF184/ SF636 

6.) Make stalking or pursuing a minor with sexual or aggressive intent 609.749, subdivision 3, paragraph (b) have to register as a sex offender if convicted by adding it to 243.166.

7.) Make engaging in or promoting prostitution of any age child have to register as a sex offender. Currently only those convicted with victims 13 and under are required to register. 

8.) Double the sentence for first time convicted child predators and Quadruple the punishment if it’s their second offense. By updating 609.3453 Criminal Sexual Predatory Conduct.

Contact your legislators. Find out who represents you and copy and share this article with them. 

No Felony, Week in Jail, 3 years probation for Trying to Meet Child

 In July 2024 the Washington County Sheriff's department in part with East Metro Sex Trafficking Task Force, Stillwater PD, Cottage Grove PD and other agencies conducted a sting to catch child predators seeking sex with children. The sting was held from an apartment building in Stillwater. Police posted a

real enough looking ad on local sex meetup pages of an AI generated model fully clothed.  An under cover female police officer would receive calls and texts from child predators. The officer was fully transparent that the age of the child was 16 years old yet the child predators proceeded to arrange the payment and meet up location and time to meet.  Police are careful to let the child predator dictate the path of the crime so they are not accused of entrapment. 

According to the criminal complaint, police reported that a man named  Lee Soua of Maplewood DOB 7/3/1998, responded to the police ad to have sex with a 16 year old child. He was reported to have arrived with $200 cash, 2 condoms, and the phone that was discovered to have the incriminating communications with the under cover police officer. Once in police custody he was reported to have admitted he knew the person he wanted to meet for sex was only 16 years old. Within a year he was convicted of Prostitution-Actor Hires or Agrees to Hire and Reasonably Believes Under 18 but at least 16

Unfortunately the sentencing guidelines are extremely weak for child sex crimes. Lee Soua was ordered to serve just 7 days in Jail, 3 years of probation, and a $50 fine. Worst of all is, if he completes his sentence and punishments without incident he will have the Felony count removed from his record and have it downgraded to a misdemeanor.  This is possible with Minnesota's stay of imposition deal weak prosecutors and judges give. His registration as a sex offender will also likely fall off too. Not that it matters, the 20,000 convicted sex offenders in MN are posted on a private database just for police. Only 300 of the 20,000 sex offenders are "bad enough" to be on a small public database. So while the law says the punishment can be "imprisonment for not more than five years or to payment of a fine of not more than $10,000, or both" it almost never happens because the weak sentencing guidelines. The guidelines are written by our legislators. With one party in control of the legislator the guidelines have gone unchanged and this one democrat party is to blame. 

 According to a public safety tool by the nationally active child advocacy group Protect.org, Washington County ranks last in the metro and 50th in the state for strength of prosecution of child exploitation according to the non-partisan site. See the detailed data, for over ten years, the safety tool shows about any of the 87 counties in MN at https://protect.org/safetytool/      

See some of the many cases in the last several years of those convicted of supposedly harsh 1st or 2nd degree rape from Washington County:

Homicidal Rapist in Forest Lake Found With Child Porn Who Self Recorded Rape Now Convicted, Only 4 years  

Only 30 Days in Jail and Probation for Child Molester Who Had Sex with Lake Elmo Child 

Only a Year in Jail for Man who Gang Raped 14 Year Old Child in Woodbury

Man Who Repeatedly Raped a Child in Oakdale, Raped another Child While on Probation and Will be Out in 2 Years 

No Mandated Jail time for Convicted St Paul Park Man who Sexually Assaulted a Child  

Man Who Gang Raped Woodbury Child Only Gets 5 years Probation and 10 Months Prison 

Only 3.5 Years for Man Who Held Down & Raped Bayport Child While Taunting Her 

In Minnesota, left wing law makers and prosecutors believe child rapists can be "rehabilitated," do not need to be monitored, and can become good members of society. The evidence is the fact only several hundred of the over 20,000 convicted rapists in Minnesota are confined in prison. Most only do a couple years and then are released without further monitoring. More information here:

Watchdog Review of Each of the Fifty States Sex Offender Laws Finds Minnesota Ranked the Most Unsafe  

If you hope to see any law change, continue to contact law makers.

Find your legislator here: https://www.leg.state.mn.us/leg/districtfinder

It's clear that just because a child rapist is charged or convicted, doesn't mean justice will be served after sentencing if convicted. Therefore, if the punishment for ALL criminal sexual conduct crimes is raised than weak charges and convictions will be stronger. With the raised bar there won't be such a thing as an outrageous plea deal to lesser rape charges or a weak sentence.

Tell legislators to also make the sex offender list public like nearly every other State in the Country does. All but MN, DC, and Maine have public lists. Maine only has 2,700 sex offenders in their state though. Compared to over 20,000 in MN. 

*In no way do we wish harm to the convicted sex offenders outside the judgement of the law. Posting each criminal's data allows the public to decide from the evidence if they appreciate knowing such data. Such as what these sex offender's last known address is. No representation is made that the individuals listed here are currently on the state's offenders registry. All names presented here were gathered at a past date. Some persons listed might no longer be registered offenders and others might have been added. Some addresses or other data might no longer be current. Owners of Washington County Watchdog assume no responsibility (and expressly disclaim responsibility) for updating this site to keep information current or to ensure the accuracy or completeness of any posted information. All data was only accurate at the time of posting per Government sources provided. Accordingly, you should confirm the accuracy and completeness of all posted information before making any decision related to any data presented on this site. The information on this web site is made available solely to protect the public. Anyone who uses this information to commit a crime or to harass an offender or his or her family is subject to criminal prosecution and civil liability. Message us if you can verify us of an address or change in data.  Washington County Watchdog is not responsible for the accuracy of the content shared, refer to our linked government sources. 

Man Reported for 1st Degree Child Molesting gets Charge Dropped

Over 4 years ago a family reported their two young children were molested by Davyd Michael Bryan Delving-Thompson of Newport. In the criminal complaint, the victims met the accused through a craigslist ad he posted requesting child photoshoot models. The victims said they went to his home and things started out as a normal photo shoot. Then later, Davyd asked the children to shoot some pictures on his bedroom, apparently separated from the guardian. There he was reported to have touched one child under the underwear and pants in the crotch while rubbing his own private parts. The other child reported they were touched outside the clothing in the private areas. The children became scared and the photoshoot ended it sounded like. Police were called and conducted a search warrant where they discovered 37 unrelated different children in various child porn photos he downloaded. The photos were discovered to be known child porn photos on police databases for missing and exploited children. Davyd was charged with Criminal Sexual Conduct-1st Degree-Penetration or Contact with Person Under 13 and several counts of possessing
child porn.

While tragic for the children and guardians to have this reportedly happen, what's also tragic is he had the first degree child molesting charge dropped. This appeared to happen in exchange for a guilty plea on 4 charges of possessing child porn. It took 4 years to get a conviction of just possessing child porn. He gets just 241 days in jail, 5 years probation, and a $137 fee. He could be serving up to 10+ years if the prosecutors didn't drop the charge.

This happens over and over in Washington County where prosecutors appear to be capable of charging a child rapist with 1st or 2nd degree child rape, but only charge with 3rd degree or worse drop the charges. What's worse is Minnesota law has very weak sentences. Even if he was charged and convicted of first degree child rape he would have likely only got 5 to 10 years in jail.  According to a public safety tool by the nationally active child advocacy group Protect.org, Washington County ranks last in the metro and 50th in the state for strength of prosecution of child exploitation according to the non-partisan site. See the detailed data, for over ten years, the safety tool shows about any of the 87 counties in MN at https://protect.org/safetytool/      

See some of the many cases in the last several years of those convicted of supposedly harsh 1st or 2nd degree rape from Washington County:

Homicidal Rapist in Forest Lake Found With Child Porn Who Self Recorded Rape Now Convicted, Only 4 years  

Only 30 Days in Jail and Probation for Child Molester Who Had Sex with Lake Elmo Child 

Only a Year in Jail for Man who Gang Raped 14 Year Old Child in Woodbury

Man Who Repeatedly Raped a Child in Oakdale, Raped another Child While on Probation and Will be Out in 2 Years 

No Mandated Jail time for Convicted St Paul Park Man who Sexually Assaulted a Child  

Man Who Gang Raped Woodbury Child Only Gets 5 years Probation and 10 Months Prison 

Only 3.5 Years for Man Who Held Down & Raped Bayport Child While Taunting Her 

In Minnesota, law makers and prosecutors believe child rapists can be "rehabilitated," do not need to be monitored, and can become good members of society. The evidence is the fact only several hundred of the over 20,000 convicted rapists in Minnesota are confined in prison. Most only do a couple years and then are released without further monitoring. More information here:

Watchdog Review of Each of the Fifty States Sex Offender Laws Finds Minnesota Ranked the Most Unsafe  

If you hope to see any law change, continue to contact law makers.

Find your legislator here: https://www.leg.state.mn.us/leg/districtfinder

It's clear that just because a child rapist is charged or convicted, doesn't mean justice will be served after sentencing if convicted. Therefore, if the punishment for ALL criminal sexual conduct crimes is raised than weak charges and convictions will be stronger. With the raised bar there won't be a thing as an outrageous plea deal to lesser rape charges or a weak sentence.

Tell legislators to also make the sex offender list public like nearly every other State in the Country does. All but MN, DC, and Maine have public lists. Maine only has 2,700 sex offenders in their state though. Compared to over 20,000 in MN. 

  

DATE: 9/22/2025 

DEFENDANT: Davyd Micheal Bryan Delving-Thompson 

DOB: 1/28/1963 

CITY/RESIDENCE: Newport, MN 

AGENCY: Washington County Sheriff's Office 

JUDGE: Siv Mjanger 

COURT NUMBER: 82-CR-22-1301 

CONVICTION: Possess Pornographic Work-Computer/Disk/Electronic/Magnetic/Optical Image w/Porn 

STATE REQUEST: Stay of Execution; 5 years of probation. 

SENTENCE: Count 1: Dismissed. Counts 2, 3, 4, and 5: Stay of Execution; 5 years of probation; 241 days jail with 103 days credited; $137 fine with surcharge and fees payable within 6 months; complete cognitive skills evaluation; follow all standard terms of probation

*In no way do we wish harm to the convicted sex offenders outside the judgement of the law. Posting each criminal's data allows the public to decide from the evidence if they appreciate knowing such data. Such as what these sex offender's last known address is. No representation is made that the individuals listed here are currently on the state's offenders registry. All names presented here were gathered at a past date. Some persons listed might no longer be registered offenders and others might have been added. Some addresses or other data might no longer be current. Owners of Washington County Watchdog assume no responsibility (and expressly disclaim responsibility) for updating this site to keep information current or to ensure the accuracy or completeness of any posted information. All data was only accurate at the time of posting per Government sources provided. Accordingly, you should confirm the accuracy and completeness of all posted information before making any decision related to any data presented on this site. The information on this web site is made available solely to protect the public. Anyone who uses this information to commit a crime or to harass an offender or his or her family is subject to criminal prosecution and civil liability. Message us if you can verify us of an address or change in data.  Washington County Watchdog is not responsible for the accuracy of the content shared, refer to our linked government sources. 

Man Rapes 10 year old Autistic Child Gets 12 Years

 According to the Stillwater Police criminal complaint, Terry Scott Nelson was accused by the victim that she was raped. The victim was a ten year old female child. The child has Autism, PTSD, and anxiety baseline. The following year (2025) Terry was convicted of Criminal Sexual

Conduct 1st Degree.  His prison sentence is 144 months (12 years) but may be released after 10. Compared to other States this is a very weak sentence for destroying a child's life.

It's an utter shame that this story was never posted in the local media. Children are abused and raped quite frequently in Washington County (see below) and yet we're the only site posting the stories. 

According to a public safety tool by the nationally active child advocacy group Protect.org, Washington County ranks last in the metro and 50th in the state for strength of prosecution of child exploitation according to the non-partisan site. See the detailed data, for over ten years, the safety tool shows about any of the 87 counties in MN at https://protect.org/safetytool/      

See some of the many cases in the last several years of those convicted of supposedly harsh 1st or 2nd degree rape from Washington County:

Homicidal Rapist in Forest Lake Found With Child Porn Who Self Recorded Rape Now Convicted, Only 4 years  

Only 30 Days in Jail and Probation for Child Molester Who Had Sex with Lake Elmo Child 

Only a Year in Jail for Man who Gang Raped 14 Year Old Child in Woodbury

Man Who Repeatedly Raped a Child in Oakdale, Raped another Child While on Probation and Will be Out in 2 Years 

No Mandated Jail time for Convicted St Paul Park Man who Sexually Assaulted a Child  

Man Who Gang Raped Woodbury Child Only Gets 5 years Probation and 10 Months Prison 

Only 3.5 Years for Man Who Held Down & Raped Bayport Child While Taunting Her 

In Minnesota, left wing law makers and prosecutors believe child rapists can be "rehabilitated," do not need to be monitored, and can become good members of society. The evidence is the fact only several hundred of the over 20,000 convicted rapists in Minnesota are confined in prison. According the the BCA over 80% of rapists in MN are child rapists. Most only do a couple years and then are released without further monitoring. More information here:

Watchdog Review of Each of the Fifty States Sex Offender Laws Finds Minnesota Ranked the Most Unsafe  

If you hope to see any law change, continue to contact law makers.

Find your legislator here: https://www.leg.state.mn.us/leg/districtfinder

It's clear that just because a child rapist is charged or convicted, doesn't mean justice will be served after sentencing if convicted. Therefore, if the punishment for ALL criminal sexual conduct crimes is raised than weak charges and convictions will be stronger. With the raised bar there won't be a thing as an outrageous plea deal to lesser rape charges or a weak sentence.

Tell legislators to also make the sex offender list public like nearly every other State in the Country does. All but MN, DC, and Maine have public lists. Maine only has 2,700 sex offenders in their state though. Compared to over 20,000 in MN. 

DATE: 5/6/2025 

DEFENDANT: Terry Scott Nelson 

DOB: 9/24/1974 

CITY/RESIDENCE: Stillwater, MN 

AGENCY: Stillwater Police Department 

JUDGE: Helen R. Brosnahan 

COURT NUMBER: 82-CR-24-2762 

CONVICTION: Criminal Sexual Conduct 1st Degree 

STATE REQUEST: Count 1: State Requested: Court Ordered: Commit to Commissioner of Corrections. 

SENTENCE: Count 1: State Requested: Court Ordered: Commit to Commissioner of Corrections; 144 months commit with 300 days credited; Conditional release after confinement of 10 year; $50 Fine with surcharge and fees payable within 3 months; Restitution ordered in the amount of $5852.74. etc

*In no way do we wish harm to the convicted sex offenders outside the judgement of the law. Posting each criminal's data allows the public to decide from the evidence if they appreciate knowing such data. Such as what these sex offender's last known address is. No representation is made that the individuals listed here are currently on the state's offenders registry. All names presented here were gathered at a past date. Some persons listed might no longer be registered offenders and others might have been added. Some addresses or other data might no longer be current. Owners of Washington County Watchdog assume no responsibility (and expressly disclaim responsibility) for updating this site to keep information current or to ensure the accuracy or completeness of any posted information. All data was only accurate at the time of posting per Government sources provided. Accordingly, you should confirm the accuracy and completeness of all posted information before making any decision related to any data presented on this site. The information on this web site is made available solely to protect the public. Anyone who uses this information to commit a crime or to harass an offender or his or her family is subject to criminal prosecution and civil liability. Message us if you can verify us of an address or change in data.  Washington County Watchdog is not responsible for the accuracy of the content shared, refer to our linked government sources. 

Public School Board ISD833 Incumbents Deserve a Failing Grade

Opinion: 

Public School Board incumbents deserve a failing grade – low proficiency,  increased spending, and safe spaces in South Washington County 833 school  district  

There's trouble in our public education system. First of all, proficiency rates are  extremely low – in So WashCo 833 only 54% of students can read at grade level.  Why is this important? Reading ability is predictive of future success. Test scores in  math and science are also at an all-time low proven by the MN Dept of Educations’  own Report Card. The decline began in 2017 for math and 2019 for reading, well  before the lockdown. Incumbents Schwartz and Van Leer, elected in 2013, have  presided over this decline.  

Spending: taxpayers should know that 50 cents of every dollar paid in property  taxes goes to the schools in Washington County. Based on the above referenced  reading, math and science scores, do you think we are getting a good return on our  investment in our public schools?  

Furthermore, according to a 2023 graph by the Center for the American Experiment,  one can see how the overall MN State decline in reading and math began after 2018  while per pupil spending has increased dramatically. Again, couldn’t we have a  better return on investment? 

Further, the school district, overseen by the board, is failing in its effort to close  the so-called “achievement gap”. This graph from 2023 shows that academic  performance is far below the goals which the school district set for itself. Is the  district just routinely making up charts and hoping no one notices when they don’t  perform?

Finally, could it be that there are no safe spaces in the SoWashCo schools?  Afterall, candidate and current board member, Hinz told a voter recently that locker  rooms are not safe spaces! The MSHSL (MN State High School League) has  adopted a policy allowing biological males to play in girls sports and be in girls  locker rooms. In January of 2025 The SoWashCo 833 Board conformed to this  policy ignoring the risks of potential injuries, lawsuits and the destruction of  girls’ sports as a result. Why would one wait until there is a problem when trouble  abounds already with serious (and permanent) injuries having already occurred  nationwide? What motivation is there for girls to achieve athletically when they  cannot compete on an even playing field?  

In conclusion, these are just some of the challenging issues for members of the  School Board in SoWashCo 833. Other problematic issues include top-down  mandates that limit teacher creativity and classroom flexibility; whether members  are independent or beholden to the union agenda; opt in and opt out policies; the  failure of DEI policies to create a truly accepting, inclusive environment for all  students; declining enrollment; and the executive use of taxpayer dollars, etc.  

The SoWashCo 833 School Board needs drastic change, and voters can do this  Nov. 4 by rejecting the status quo and electing new, energetic board members 

who will be independent minded working for the good of all. The status quo is poor  results, ever expanding building projects, and higher taxes. Vote out incumbents,  Schwartz, VanLeer and Hinz, and elect new board members, ones that will bring  

improvement, and pay attention to parents, children and teachers. Vote for Bryn  Forstner, Juan Huerta and Lori Pecchia Michalski. They are dedicated to  academic competition, safe classrooms and protecting girls’ sports and locker  rooms.