Man Sentenced For Relationship With 16-Year-Old NC Runaway

GWINNETT COUNTY, GA -- A Gwinnett man has been sentenced after bringing a 16-year-old to Georgia and being cruel to her by confining her and in other ways, April 25.

Michael Ren Wysolovski entered a guilty plea to cruelty to children in the first degree and interstate interference with custody. Superior Court Judge Timothy Hamil accepted the negotiated plea and sentenced Wysolovski to 10 years of probation with the first eight months in confinement and credit for time served. He will be required to register as a sex offender and abide by applicable sex offender conditions.

Wysolovski was accused of meeting a 16-year-old online at an internet chat site for people with eating disorders, and that their communications later turned to a sexual nature.

On May 23, 2016, Anthony and Shauna Burns of Charlotte, North Carolina, reported their daughter, Hailey Burns, had run away. Her status as a runaway was supported by a journal that she left behind.

An investigation by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation culminated with the girl’s discovery in Gwinnett County. The Gwinnett County Police Department had received a report that the victim had revealed her true identity via the internet to an individual in Romania and that she was living with Wysolovski.

On June 25, 2017, Police responded to 2723 Seneca Trail, Duluth, and located a young girl but Wysolovski identified her as his girlfriend, Alice.

The girl presented an ID card of another person, but she was positively identified as Hailey Burns. Burns told police that on May 23, 2016, she walked three miles from her home, and that Wysolovski picked her up and drove her to Georgia.

Burns initially reported that Wysolovski deprived her of food, forbade contact with her family, and confined her to the home; sometimes being caged. Burns and Wysolovski lived with other roommates at two houses near Decatur, before moving to Duluth.

Wysolovski was arrested and originally charged with rape, aggravated sodomy, cruelty to children in the first degree and interstate interference with custody. Investigation into the circumstances of Burns’ one-year disappearance, including interviews and examination of physical evidence from the scene, failed to develop sufficient facts or evidence to support the totality of the original charges, according to the Gwinnett DA's Office.

Judge Hamil denied the Wysolovski’s request to be sentenced as a first offender.