WAUSAU, Wis. – A married eastern Wisconsin man thought he was going to a motel for a little romance with one of his handful of lovers. She allegedly played along and suggested he be tied up and blindfolded for a massage, according to court documents.
But four women eventually showed up to humiliate the man, who ended up with his penis glued to his stomach in a bizarre plot to punish him for a lover's quadrangle gone bad, according to the documents filed in Calumet County.
Now it's the women, including the man's wife, who face punishment — perhaps six years in prison — and at least one said Monday the story has gotten twisted and she's embarrassed.
"I am disturbed. I am upset. I am having a hard time handling life; an emotional wreck," Wendy Sewell, 43, of Kaukauna, said Monday in a telephone interview from her home. "I am ashamed."
Sewell, Therese Ziemann, 48, of Menasha, Michelle Belliveau, 43, of Neenah, and the man's wife are charged with being party to false imprisonment, a felony. Ziemann also is charged with fourth-degree sexual assault.
The women are free on $200 cash bails. Investigators say all the women but Belliveau were romantically involved with the man. Online court records didn't list defense attorneys for any of the women Monday.
The Associated Press is not naming the man's wife to protect his identity as an alleged victim of sexual assault.
The women's plot for revenge unfolded last Thursday at the Lakeview Motel about 30 miles southwest of Green Bay in the tiny village of Stockbridge near the scenic shores of Lake Winnebago.
Criminal complaints filed Friday allege the man agreed to be bound with "sheer sheets" and blindfolded with a pillowcase for a "rub down" by Ziemann. She instead cut off his underwear with a scissors and summoned the others to the room with a text message.
Ziemann struck the man in the face, and used Krazy Glue to attach his penis to his stomach when the other women arrived, according to the complaints. The man told investigators he also was threatened with a gun. Ziemann told investigators she didn't have a gun but may have told the victim, "Do you know how much I want to shoot you?"
He started screaming and the women rushed off fearful that he could get loose and hurt them but allegedly took his wallet, vehicle and cell phone.
Ziemann told investigators she met the man online through Craigslist, fell in love and paid for his use of a room at the motel for the past two months. She said she gave him about $3,000. Then last Wednesday, she learned from the man's wife that he was married and had other girlfriends "using them for money." She expected the money to be repaid, according to the documents.
During Thursday's confrontation with the man, Ziemann told investigators Sewell asked him, "Which one do you love more?" and the man's wife made a derisive remark about him being scared.
The man got free from the bed by chewing through one of his bindings, went outside and borrowed a telephone from the motel owner to call police.
Ziemann and Belliveau are sisters and Belliveau didn't do anything wrong, Sewell said Monday. "She was just there for moral support. She wasn't even dating the guy. She stood at the door the whole time and didn't participate or nothing."
Ziemann's husband answered the telephone at their home and declined comment. There was no telephone listing for Belliveau.
The man had no telephone listing in Fond du Lac.
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On one hand, I would never condone physical violence against another human being, but the fact that this man had three girlfriends AND a wife sort of makes me feel like he had it coming. I feel even less sorry for him because he is pressing charges against these women for being fed up with his behavior. What a snake. I hope eventually all of the women sue him to have their money repaid.
1i agree. i had to laugh though, because i just finished reading a book called The last Time I Was Me, and this is basically what happened in the book (and there's a trial).
betting he won't be a repeat offender.
2Omigod.
I know logically I want to say, that's illegal what they did (well, it classified as a felony, etc), and they probably deserve some punishment but I can't help myself to kind of think it's a rather comical revenge (secretly I LOL thinking he kind of deserves to be scared out of his wits for being a snake).
I hope he won't be a repeat offender.
*Unconditional love is a beautiful thing, just be sure to give it AFTER your conditions have been met.*
3OK well the whole crazy glue the pen15 to his stomach thing had me laughing
On the one hand I don't think it was right of them to scare the sh*t out of the dude.. threatening him with a gun & crazy gluing his peep is pretty bad
On the other hand, I sooo fell their rage & would totally have wanted to do the same thing in her
situation..
So.. Final answer: It's not right but I'm not judging.
4FEEL*, not fell.
And I am still laughing about a crazy glued peep
5He had it coming. Crazy glue is also very dangerous, folks.
6He may have had it coming, but what they did was still illegal.
7There are ways to humiliate him without it being so physical and possibly harming and it being illegal. Honestly they weren't very creative in my opinion. I could think of hundreds of ways to get back at him and he wouldn't have a leg to stand on in retaliation.
(no pun intended)
8I doubt anyone would be giggling at this or thinking it wasn't as bad if the situation was reversed.... and a woman had 4 boyfriends and a husband and the men got together and did this to a woman.
I'm appalled at the double standard- this is a sexual attack. I know there would be an outcry if there was even a hint at 'she deserved it, she had 4 boyfriends and a husband'. The reaction would be 'no woman should ever be hit or subjected to abuse'. Really no human should go through this.
9what.the.hell.
10Good grief, what a bunch of idiots. They should be sent to prison. It reminds me of the movie "9 to 5".
11he kinda deserved but they didnt need to be so physical and illegal.
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