A Gillette man who allegedly confessed to molesting kids when a job he applied for at the Campbell County Sheriff’s Office required a polygraph test has agreed to plead guilty.
Bradley Robert Hudson II, 20, is scheduled for a change-of-plea hearing on Monday in Campbell County District Court, according to the court clerk’s office.
He was facing 25 sex counts and has agreed to plead guilty to three of those, all felonies, says a plea agreement filed Friday.
The state’s prosecutor will argue for total of 12-24 years in prison, while Hudson is free to argue for any sentence he would like, under the agreement.
Case prosecutor and Campbell County Chief Deputy Attorney Greg Steward signed the agreement Friday, as did Hudson and his attorney, State Public Defender Brandon Booth.
Often after a defendant changes his plea, he undertakes a presentence investigation to yield to the judge a report on his life and history, which the judge uses to consider sentencing weeks later.
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During a pre-employment polygraph while applying to be a jail officer for the Campbell County Sheriff’s Office, Hudson confessed to molesting children, court documents allege.
On Feb. 17 when Hudson was taking a pre-employment polygraph test, he had four more steps to fulfill in his job application process, Campbell County Undersheriff Quentin Reynolds told Cowboy State Daily in March when the outlet broke news of the case.
Licensed polygraph examiner Mike Walsh conducted the test that afternoon, during which he asked Hudson about any crimes he had committed.
His inappropriate sexual behavior began when he was younger than 10, when Hudson told Walsh he engaged in sexual play with other children, says the evidentiary affidavit filed in the case.
When he was about 13, Hudson would watch pornography on his mother’s phone, he added, according to the affidavit.
“He said he was deeply into sex,” Walsh wrote. “He denied ever intentionally seeing child pornography.”
Hudson allegedly admitted to having prolonged phases in which he’d have prepubescent children manually stimulate his genitalia, and in which he’d digitally penetrate theirs, the affidavit says.
At one point, Hudson allegedly admitted that when he was 18 he had a roughly kindergarten-age child touch his genitalia, according to the affidavit.
Walsh developed “serious concerns” about letting Hudson be out in the world in places he could access children after that polygraph, so the evaluator spoke with Campbell County Sheriff’s Investigator Justin Cody, says the document.
Clair McFarland can be reached at clair@cowboystatedaily.com.
