Sunday, August 16, 2009

Repeat voyeur sentenced to 12 years, sex offender treatment

Posted: August 15, 2009 [Indianapolis Star]

A Marion Superior Court judge Friday sentenced a repeated Peeping Tom to 12 years in prison and two years in community corrections.

William Newhouse, 51, was accused of spying into a woman'sbedroom several times from September to February in an apartment complex on Indianapolis' Far Southside. He pleaded guilty to all counts against him, including two counts of burglary, voyeurism, stalking and public indecency.

Newhouse broke into a screened-in porch adjacent to the woman's bedroom, according to charging documents.

He had three previous voyeurism or trespassing convictions, Deputy Prosecutor Eric Schmadeke said. Judge Kurt Eisgruber gave Newhouse a 24-year sentence, suspending 10 years. Newhouse also will be put on probation for three years and was ordered to get sex-offender treatment.

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