(03/27/09 – Initial BadBadTeacher.com Report)
Daniel Acker, 61, an aquatics coordinator for the West Allis-West Milwaukee Recreation Department in Milwaukee, Wisconsin has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting boys for more than three decades.
The alleged victims are boys who ranged in age from 7 to 15-years-old when the crimes were committed between the 1970’s and 2008.
Police say that Acker may have committed hundreds of sexual assaults on dozens of victims over a period of four decades.
Acker came to the attention of authorities when the West Allis West Milwaukee School District tipped off Greenfield police after an adult came to them claiming that Acker assaulted him years ago. Police started an investigation and found four alleged victims, all now in the 40’s, who allege that Acker sexually assault them.
Police say that they also have evidence that Acker who also worked with at-risk children at the Milwaukee County Mental Health Complex preyed on boys he met there as well.
Police also have interviewed an 19-year-old man who them that he and Acker started having sex when he was 15 or 16 and that he and Acker are still in a sexual relationship. As a result of this alleged sexual relationship, police took Acker into custody on charges of sexual assault of a child.
Acker’s duties included setting up the swim schedule and coordinating lifeguards and instructors for the department’s four pools, at Nathan Hale and Central high schools and Frank Lloyd Wright and West Milwaukee middle schools.
West Allis West Milwaukee School District said Acker has been suspended since Monday.
04/06/09 – More Charges Filed
Late Friday afternoon, prosecutors charged Daniel Acker with new counts of assault, enticement and producing child pornography on allegations that he sexually assaulted, tied up and photographed a boy during the early 1990s.
Reportedly Greenfield police spent more than four hours on Thursday searching Acker’s Waukesha condominium looking for any secret compartments that may have been used to hide child pornography.
9/29/09 – No Contest Plea
Daniel Acker has, in a plea deal with prosecutors, pleaded no contest to sex assault charges.
Under the terms of the plea agreement Acker will be sentenced to 15 years in prison. He faced up to 40 years in prison if convicted at trial.
Formal sentencing is set for January.
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15 YEARS?!?!?!? He commited crimes for twice this long and this is all he’s getting. I can only pray that prison justice is carried out to the fullest.