One of PV's alumni indicates the long-term effectiveness of their program. Klepper is better known as the baseball bat rapist admitted to PV after being tried as an adult. PV's admission policy states they do not admit violent or sexual offenders, and Klepper was both.
http://www.gazette.net/stories/05192010 ... _32550.phpBethesda man sentenced to seven years for soliciting minorKlepper, 23, violated probation for sex assault caseby Meghan Tierney | Staff WriterA Bethesda man, who sexually assaulted an escort eight years ago, when he was 15, was sentenced to seven years in prison for attempting to pay undercover police officers posing as a teenage girl for sex.
Andrew G. Klepper, 23, pleaded guilty to sexual solicitation of a minor, a felony, in January and was sentenced to seven years in prison with six years and six months suspended in Montgomery County Circuit Court in Rockville on Thursday.
Klepper, of the 5300 block of Westbard Avenue, used the Internet to arrange a June 11, 2009, meeting with a police officer, who was posing as a 16-year-old girl, near Gaithersburg High School. He told the officer he would pay her at least $250 for sex. After being confronted by police at the meeting site, Klepper tried to flee. He was carrying a folding knife and a small amount of cash in his car.
"You were clearly eager to do it and if that were a live human being on the other end of that line it would have been a horrendous crime," Judge Thomas L. Craven said.
Klepper, who is unemployed and not attending school, was recently diagnosed with a sexual addiction, his Rockville attorney Paul Stein said.
Stein said he hopes Klepper can get treatment for sexual addiction. "We believe that Andrew is not at this stage a danger to the community," he said.
On the day he was arrested for solicitation, Klepper was also negotiating to perform a live sex show with a prostitute; negotiating with two prostitutes to have sex with him and pose as his girlfriend at a family party; visiting mainstream and sexually explicit dating sites; making arrangements for a mail-order bride from Russia; responding to ads posted by four other prostitutes; e-mailing explicit pictures of himself and ordering pornographic movies, Assistant State's Attorney Patrick Mays, a prosecutor, said. Terms of his probation bar him from using the Internet except for school work.
"Though I've done some bad things I'm not a bad person. I'm a good person," Klepper said.
"Today I have begun to understand why I risked my freedom to be with a prostitute. Now I admit I have a sexual addiction."
Klepper was one of at least 18 men arrested last summer in a police prostitution sting. Most pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges, Stein said; none of the others had a history of sexual violence.
Klepper was sentenced to eight years in prison last month for violating his probation by getting arrested for solicitation.
Klepper was charged as an adult with multiple felonies for holding a woman against her will and sodomizing her with the handle of a baseball bat in 2002, when he was in the tenth grade. He pleaded guilty to first-degree assault, fourth-degree sex offense and robbery with a deadly weapon as part of a deal to avoid having the case moved to the juvenile justice system. He received a 15-year suspended jail sentence and five years of probation beginning in January 2005 after returning from an out-of-state residential program for troubled youths.
Klepper was arrested in 2006 for working as a prostitute's assistant and sentenced to a year of probation. He also was charged with violating his probation in the sexual assault case.
Klepper was charged with two counts of misdemeanor theft in January 2008 for shoplifting. He was acquitted of theft but charged with violating his probation.
