Pardoned Man Makes Bail On New Sex Charges

MANKATO, Minn. (AP) -- A pardoned Minnesota sex offender facing new sexual assault charges has made bail.

Thirty-seven-year-old Jeremy Giefer of Vernon Center posted a $350,000 bond for his release from jail Monday. The Free Press of Mankato reports conditions of Giefer's release include GPS monitoring and no contact with girls under 16.

Giefer's case has drawn attention because he received a pardon in 2008 on his 1994 conviction of having sex with a 14-year-old girl when he was 19. They later married.

Then-Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Attorney General Lori Swanson and a former state Supreme Court chief justice voted to grant Giefer's petition for a pardon. Now prosecutors have accused Giefer of assaulting a second girl hundreds of times -- before and after he received the pardon. He says he's innocent.

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