Bodoh To Serve Four Years For Child Enticement
Activist Takes Reduced Charge Plea Deal
Waukesha - A Wauwatosa contractor with a long history of involvement in the Milwaukee LGBT community has been sentenced to four years in prison following a guilty plea to a reduced felony charge of child enticement.
  Waukesha County Judge J. Mac Davis sentenced 43 year-old David W. Bodoh to four years in prison with ten years of extended supervision on March 7. Davis also ruled Bodoh will not be eligible for Challenge Incarceration or Earned Release programs. Bodoh will also have to provide a DNA specimen if not previously obtained, may not possess a firearm and will have to comply with regulations of the state’s Sex Offender Registry for the rest of his life.
  Bodoh had pleaded not guilty to the Class C felony charge of Use a Computer to Facilitate a Child Sex Crime on September 19 last year. On January 3, he pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of Child Enticement - Fictitious Child, a Class D felony as part of a plea arrangement. Under the original charge Bodoh could have served up to 40 years in prison and been fined up to $100,000. The lesser child enticement charge carried a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison and 10 years of extended supervision.
  Also as part of the plea agreement, Bodoh also had to admit in court that he believed the person with whom he was communicating on the Internet was younger than 16 and his intent was to have sexual contact with the boy.
  Bodoh originally appeared on July 13 last year in Waukesha Circuit Court on charges alleging  he had met a 14 year-old Oconomowoc youth in an online chat room in January 2007. Bodoh had claimed he was 21 years old and exchanged a series of explicit emails that included naked photos.
  According to the complaint, the young man’s mother discovered the correspondence and alerted police. Arrangements were made for a state agent to pose as the teen. Last June the agent, posing as the youth, made contact with Bodoh through a gay website. Bodoh reportedly agreed to meet with the agent at the Brookfield Square mall on July 12.  The complaint claimed that Bodoh promised to give the agent/”boy” the “ride of his life.”
  Bodoh was subsequently arrested by Brookfield police at the mall. Bodoh allegedly told the police at the time he had planned to do nothing more than take the boy to get something to eat.
  Bodoh is the owner of the Red Tail Construction firm in Wauwatosa. He has been active for many years in both Native American and LGBT community organizations. He was involved in the currently inactive Two Spirit Society and was vocal in advocating for Wauwatosa East High School to discontinue using Native American images with the school’s Red Raiders mascot.
  Mainstream media reports last July played up Bodoh’s association with PrideFest. However, Bodoh also had served as a volunteer with the LGBT Community Center, the Milwaukee Gay Arts Center and the above mentioned Two Spirit Society in addition to his more recent volunteer work as part of the gay festival’s production team.
  Following his arrest, Bodoh offered to withdraw from any further involvement with PrideFest and the resignation was accepted.