H.S. Student, 18, Gets 1 Year For Sexual Coercion Of Young Girls

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) - An 18-year-old high school student from North Oaks, Minnesota, has been sentenced to one year behind bars for coercing a 12- and a 13-year-old girl into performing a sex act on him in an Arden Hills park.

When Alexander Patrick Lindeke is released from the Ramsey County Workhouse he'll be placed on probation for 20 years and registered as a sex offender for life. If he violates the terms of his probation, he faces more than 14 years in prison.

Lindeke pleaded guilty to a felony count of first-degree criminal sexual conduct on Sept. 25. He was arrested at White Bear Lake High School in late May.

Lindeke met the 12-year-old on the website HotOrNot.com and persuaded her to film and send him a graphic video, according to the criminal complaint.

"Unfortunately, there are still men in our community who think it is okay to exploit vulnerable young girls for their own sexual gratification," Ramsey County Attorney John Choi said in June. "As a community, we need to get serious about how we educate our boys so they understand that girls and women are not sexual objects to be exploited, but must be valued and treated with respect."

When the girl and her friend met him at Cummings Park, police say Lindeke threatened to publish the video if they didn't perform a sex act on him in the back seat of his car.

In a separate incident, Lindeke was accused of threatening to publish a video of an underage girl exposing herself to him unless she sent him a photo of her 8-year-old sibling.

The 13-year-old girl picked Lindeke's photo out of a six-person lineup.

Lindeke had enlisted in the Minnesota National Guard in late December and was scheduled to attend basic training in August.