'Predatory Sex Offender' Victims Were Infants, Teens: Report

WAUKESHA, WI — Authorities say they've arrested a predatory sex offender who stands accused of sexually assaulting six children in the Waukesha area. Now, Waukesha police are asking for the public's help to determine whether more victims are out there after they learned the offender, Gary D. Ewing, also lived in Racine, Waukesha and Oconomowoc.

Waukesha Police say Ewing faces four counts of repeated sexual assault of a child in addition to another sex assault charge. To warrant that charge, officials say an offender has to have at least three violations of first-degree sexual assault per count. He has also been charged with second-degree sexual assault of a child, and attempted second-degree sexual assault of a child. Police say they launched an investigation into Ewing's activities after an apparent victim came forward in January.

Police say Ewing's victims are non-relative children ranging in age from infant to teenagers and are both boys and girls. Police said Ewing's pattern was to befriend a family and offer to watch the children or take the children to the park while the parents were home, ran errands, or were at work.

Police said Ewing has a small fishing boat and camping gear and possibly used those to spend time alone with children.

Waukesha police said their investigation was extensive, saying they learned that Ewing was a predatory sex offender who preyed on multiple victims in Illinois and Wisconsin as far back as 1982.

Investigators have learned that Ewing has multiple convictions for sex offenses in Illinois:

1982 for Indecent Liberties with a Child
1985 for Sexual Assault with Force
1990 for Aggravated Sexual Assault
1994 for Indecent Exposure.

Police say the Illinois Sex Offender registry didn’t start until convictions after July 1, 1999 so Ewing was not required to register as a sex offender.

Ewing moved to Racine in 1996 and lived there until 2003. He then lived in Waukesha from 2003-2008 and then Oconomowoc from 2008-present, police say.

Ewing is currently being held in the Waukesha County Jail on a $150,000 bond.