Man Who Enslaved Teen Girl Gets No Prison Time

Wysolovski spent eight months behind bars in the Gwinnett County Detention Center following his arrest, and was released in February 2018. He pleaded guilty last Thursday to first-degree cruelty to children and interstate interference with custody. Since the age of consent in Georgia is 16, he was not charged with child molestation; more frustratingly, though he’d been previously indicted on charges of rape, prosecutor DeTardo concluded that rape actually fell into a “gray area” of consent that might not sway a jury, and the charges were dropped. And yet:

The specific child cruelty charge he pleaded to specified that the cruelty was caused by “excessive physical pain during sexual intercourse.”

Wysolovski will still register as a sex offender, but per his plea deal, he will not serve prison time. His eight months in the county detention center will count toward time served, and he will spend the remaining nine years of his sentence on probation.

This news comes on the heels of a similar story from Watertown, New York, in which 25-year-old bus driver Shane Piche pleaded guilty to raping a 14-year-old girl on his bus route, but according to local station WWNY was only sentenced to 10 years probation. The victim’s mother wrote a letter to the station lamenting the sentence:

I wish Shane Piche would have received time in jail for the harm he caused to my child. He took something from my daughter she will never get back and has caused her to struggle with depression and anxiety.

Piche, like Wysolovski, will register as a sex offender.

This post has been updated to more precisely reflect the nature of the crime.

Update (May 1, 12:24 p.m.) According to the Daily Mail (which we will not link to because they named an underage victim) the conditions of Wysolovski’s probation reportedly limit his access to pornography, drugs and alcohol. Last week, the victim also read an impact statement in court detailing Wysolovski’s abuse. “The second I left my home my life was ruined,” she said. “He did unimaginable things to me and irreparably broke my spirit and sense of self…He lowered my self-esteem greatly and led me to believe that I will never be loved, or have a proper life if I gained any weight.”

Per AJC, one of the reasons Wysolovski was offered the lesser sentence was because the victim—who suffers from a series of mental health issues—and her family did not want the case to go to trial. “She would be attacked again by you and your attorney,” the victim’s father said in a victim impact statement.