Registered sex offender from Wadena indicted for attempting to sexually exploit 12-year-old

Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on November 19 a federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment against Matthew W. Tolkinen, age 53, of Wadena.

According to court documents, Tolkinen engaged in a conversation with an undercover law enforcement officer from the Outagamie County Sheriff’s Office who was posing online as a 12-year-old girl. During the conversation, Tolkinen repeatedly described his desire to have sex with the child, whom he believed was in school. In the conversation, Tolkinen also described his plan in graphic detail, requested naked photographs of the child, represented that the child could not get pregnant, and warned the child that the planned sexual activity was going to be painful....

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