Pardoned Sex Offender charged again with raping daughter

Pardoned Sex Offender charged again with raping daughter

Jeremy Giefer, 37, of Vernon Center was released on a $350,000 bail yesterday.

Giefer was originally charged in 1993 and convicted in 1994 on charges of statutory rape after having sex with a 14 year old girl. Giefer was 19 years old at the time. Giefer impregnated the girl, and later married her, after serving 45 days in jail for the crime.

Fast forward to 2008, when Giefer sent a petition to representatives asking that he be pardonned of the charges. In his letter, Giefer attempted to separate himself from the average sex-offender by stating that he had a long-term, monogamous relationship with this woman, that he was only four years older than her, and that he had married her and raised a family with her, including the daughter they conceived in 1994.

Giefer further stated that his wife wished to start a daycare business on their property, and this could only be done once his record was clear.

Giefer was pardonned of the charges in 2008 by a panel of three people, including Governor Tim Pawlenty, Attorney General Lori Swanson and former state supreme court justice Eric Magnuson.

New charges were filed against Giefer in 2010. Initially, reports stated only that "a girl," who wished to be anonymous, had filed charges that Giefer had sexually assaulted her more than 250 times from when she was 9 years old to 16 years old, both before and after the pardon.

Now it has come to light that this victim was his own daughter, the same one conceived by the statutory rape in 1994. She is known only by her initials, "C.G." C.G. alleges that Giefer raped her repeatedly, forcing her to engage in various sexual acts, and that these events occurred after her mother left the home with her brother, presumably to work in the daycare which she ran next door. C.G. also states that her father had her put on a the birth- control pill when she was 15.

Giefer has been prohibited from seeing the victim or coming within 100 yards from her. He was recently accused of breaking this condition of his release when he was in a vehicle next to hers at a location where both cars were dropping someone off. Giefer's attorney has stated that this was a mere coincedence, and Geifer did not know that she would be there at the same time he was.