Northfield Man Gets Probation for Sex with Minor

A Northfield man will serve 10 years supervised probation for having sex with a minor.

Jesus Celis Perez, 23, was sentenced Tuesday in Rice County District Court for third-degree sexual conduct for an incident that happened in July 2008.

According to the criminal complaint filed with Rice County, Perez, then 20, had sex with a 15-year-old girl.

The two agreed to have sex, the complaint says, after Perez consumed about two beers and the girl had six or seven beers. After having sex for about 10 minutes, the girl told police, she asked Perez to stop because of pain from intercourse. Perez didn’t initially stop, according to the complaint.

The girl told police it was hard to remember everything because she was in and out of consciousness, the complaint said, but said Perez attempted to have sex with her again after she returned from the bathroom and vomited on his bed for the second time.

Perez pleaded guilty to the charge in November 2010, dropping another felony charge of third-degree criminal sexual conduct with a helpless person. The maximum penalty for both charges is 15 years in prison and/or a $30,000 fine.

Perez served 148 days in jail. He must register as a predator, attend a sex offender program, not access the Internet without approval and submit to random searches.

Should Perez violate probation, he could serve prison time.

Perez had a clean criminal record, aside from moving violations, according to Minnesota Courts records.