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Duluth News Tribune
November 5, 2013
A former Salvation Army youth basketball coach who was found guilty in September of sexually assaulting two preteen girls will spend at least 12 years behind bars.
In sentencing Wendell Anthony Greene to a maximum guideline sentence, Judge Mark Munger cited Greene’s lack of remorse for the crimes.
“Mr. Greene, you just don’t understand that what you did is wrong,” Munger said. “You were placed in a position of trust by the Salvation Army, a fine institution that tries so much to help in the community. In one fell swoop, you breached the trust of the Salvation Army, the community, these girls, their mother and everyone who knows them.”
Greene, 37, was sentenced today in State District Court in Duluth to serve 18 years in prison, with the final six years to be served as supervised release. He will remain on conditional release for the rest of his life, and could be sent back to serve the remainder of the term if he violates any conditions of his release.
Thomas Skare, the public defender for Greene, called the sentence “excessive.”
“This is a harsh sentence given his lack of a prior criminal history,” Skare told the News Tribune outside the courtroom. “A bottom-guideline sentence would have been more appropriate.”
Greene was found guilty by a jury Sept. 18 of first-degree criminal sexual conduct and two counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct. Two sisters, who were 8 and 10 at the time of the assaults, testified that Greene had sexually abused them in his role as a coach and personal care assistant to the family.
The girls’ mother, in a written statement read in court today, said her daughters still suffer from the trauma of the abuse.
“If someone they had trusted could do this to her, who can they trust now?” she wrote. “Words cannot explain the hurt this has caused.”
