Gary Aaron Huber was sentenced for sexually abusing boys. (Mug shot: Wisconsin Department of Corrections)
A sheriff’s deputy who immediately quit when his colleagues investigated him for sexually abusing boys is going to prison.
Gary Aaron Huber, 36, was sentenced on Tuesday in Rock County, Wisconsin, to six years behind bars and 10 years of extended supervision. He must register as a sex offender for 15 years.
He pleaded guilty on Aug. 10 to charges in connection with abusing minors. Huber’s pattern of abuse was to show victims pornography and also to fondle them, investigators have said.
For example, Huber would show a certain boy pornography and “would state that someday [the boy, then age 8] might be a porn star,” according to the probable cause affidavit obtained by Law&Crime.
Investigators said Huber threatened the boy by saying he would tell people he was gay. The defendant, a former U.S. Marine, also guilted him by saying all of his friends died in the war. The victim also said Huber would scream at him, try to scare him, and would otherwise intimidate him.
Allegations date back to before the Rock County Sheriff’s Office hired Huber as a deputy on Aug. 9, 2016, but one younger victim said his final encounter with the abuser was in the fall of that year.
Huber did not stick around at his job when law enforcement started investigating.
“I can see where this is going, so I’m just going to go ahead and resign,” he said when a captain finally got him on the phone, according to documents.
Where it went was him pleading guilty to two counts of causing a child 13-18 to view sexual activity and two counts of exposing genitals/pubic area/intimate parts to a child.
Authorities dropped one count of first-degree child sexual assault – sexual conduct with a person under the age of 13, one count of repeated sexual assault of same child (at least three violations of first or second-degree sexual assault), three counts of child enticement, one count of exposing genitals/pubic area/intimate parts to a child.
He received 91 days credit for time served.
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