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Two Sexual Assault Cases Involving Children Filed in Racine

Apr. 15, 2025 10:15a

(WGTD)---A pair of troubling, unrelated sexual assault cases involving children were filed in Racine Court Tuesday. 

57-year-old Michael Pipp was charged with 1st Degree Sexual Assault of a Child under the age of 13 and a second count of Child enticement. A bond was set at $20,000. 

10 years ago, Pipp was a gym teacher at a school in Waterford that the criminal complaint identified as St. Thomas Day School.

Pipp allegedly had sexual contact with a then 1st grader in a storage room.

The girl kept quiet about it for years, making the disclosure only recently to a therapist.

Pipp was fired from the school in 2015 when a sexual assault case surfaced in Waukesha County for which Pipp served nearly 8 years in prison. 

The complaint says the Waterford school reported the Waukesha incident back then in a letter sent home to parents.

In the second case, 52-year-old Larry Bergey of Racine was charged with having sexual contact with a child. A bond in that case was set at $50,000.

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