Wisconsin: Prosecutor who 'sexted' victim won't resign.

A Wisconsin prosecutor known for two decades as an advocate for crime victims says he is embarrassed about sending sexually suggestive text messages to a choking victim while he was prosecuting her ex-boyfriend, but will remain in office.

Calumet County District Attorney Kenneth Kratz issued that statement Wednesday after The Associated Press reported on the 30 texts he sent to a 26-year-old woman who had complained to police last year. A police report shows he repeatedly sent Stephanie Van Groll text messages in October 2009 trying to spark an affair.

''Are you the kind of girl that likes secret contact with an older married elected DA ... the riskier the better?'' Kratz, 50, wrote in one message. In another, he wrote: ''I would not expect you to be the other woman. I would want you to be so hot and treat me so well that you'd be THE woman! R U that good?''

Kratz was prosecuting Van Groll's ex-boyfriend on charges he nearly choked her to death last year. He also was veteran chair of the Wisconsin Crime Victims' Rights Board, a quasi-judicial agency that can reprimand judges, prosecutors and police officers who mistreat crime victims.

Van Groll told police in Kaukauna, Wis., where she lived, that she felt pressured to have a relationship with Kratz or he would drop charges against her ex-boyfriend.

Link:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/09/16/us/AP-US-Wisconsin-Prosecutor-Sexting.html?_r=1&scp=4&sq=lawyer&st=nyt