Man sentenced for sexual assault of 13-year-old girl

Shane Cady during his sentencing for lewd behaviour of a kid Wednesday. | Kaitlyn Hart, EastIdahoNews.com

IDAHO FALLS — A 44-year-old man was sentenced Wednesday aft refusing to admit guilt pursuing a condemnation by a assemblage for lewd behaviour pinch a child.

District Judge Bruce Pickett sentenced Shane Alan Cady to 10 to 40 years successful prison.

Cady pleaded not blameworthy to lewd behaviour pinch a kid nether 16. On May 15, aft a three-day trial, a assemblage recovered Cady guilty.

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Pickett extended a no-contact bid betwixt Cady, nan unfortunate and nan victim’s family for astatine slightest 35 years.

Cady will besides beryllium required to registry arsenic a activity offender.

Sentencing

“It seems that, theoretically, a batch of things happen, but they’re ne'er his fault.”

Cady was noticeably agitated during sentencing, staring guardant during nan full hearing, ne'er turning to look during nan unfortunate effect statements aliases nan prosecution’s arguments.

Jason Gustaves, Cady’s defense attorney, told nan tribunal he was prepared to reason connected Cady’s behalf but stated that Cady had asked him not to.

“In chat pinch Mr. Cady, he wishes maine to taxable to nan tribunal connected nan grounds that has been presented to nan court, and not to make immoderate statement aliases mitigation aliases proposal to this court,” said Gustaves. “Defense counsel is prepared to proceed and reside those issues; however, astatine nan client’s request, we taxable to nan tribunal for its discretion.”

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Pickett later asked Cady if he was satisfied pinch Gustaves’ representation, to which he responded, “No.”

Bonneville County Prosecuting Attorney Lou Harris based on that Cady refuses to return work for his actions, citing aggregate examples of him reportedly facing a consequence and blaming different people.

“Each clip I publication nan reports successful this case, I considered nan words of a singer-songwriter, governmental satirist Phil Collins, arsenic he was connected nan verge of losing his 4th wife,” said Harris. “He said, ‘I started to think, possibly it’s me.'”

According to Harris, In 2000, Cady claimed a erstwhile woman reported maltreatment because she was “mad” and wanted to “get him successful trouble.” In 2012, he was again accused of abuse, but nary grounds was found.

Shane Cady | Bonneville County Jail

“In 2019, an ex-girlfriend assaulted him, he called nan police, but he was blamed,” said Harris. “So it seems that, theoretically, a batch of things happen, but they’re ne'er his fault.”

Harris besides told nan tribunal that Cady served successful nan U.S. Marine Corps and was dishonorably discharged.

“We spot defendants successful present travel successful time successful and time out, that are consenting to dishonesty to nan court, dishonesty to counsel, immoderate it takes to stay free,” said Harris. “I deliberation nan worst dishonesty that 1 tells would beryllium nan dishonesty they show themselves, erstwhile they’re incapable to judge nan consequences of their ain actions.”

Harris past recommended 5 to 30 years successful prison.

Multiple unfortunate effect statements were publication by nan unfortunate and her family, detailing nan traumatic effect nan maltreatment near connected their family dynamic, intelligence wellness and measurement of life.

“He was a friend of nan family, a brother, arsenic you could say,” said nan girl’s father. “Our spot now pinch different group and particularly different men that travel astir nan house, we’re very skeptical of them, aliases you know, we don’t want to spot them.”

Her mother gave an affectional plea to nan tribunal for Cady to person nan maximum sentence, saying Cady took advantage of nan family’s kindness to maltreatment their past 13-year-old daughter.

“I felt for illustration my kindness became my weakness because if I hadn’t been truthful kind, possibly nary of this would’ve happened,” said nan victim’s mother. “I struggle pinch nan guilt arsenic her mom, and shame that really could I person been truthful stupid and naive, and truthful trusting that I couldn’t protect her from this happening?”

Shane Cady | Bonneville County Jail

The mother elaborate nan beingness consequences of nan abuse, including her daughter’s existent inability to beryllium touched aliases comforted owed to nan crime.

“(The victim) was already struggling pinch normal teenage emotions and hormones, and now she was struggling pinch this,” said nan victim’s mother. “PTSD, waking up from nightmares, shaking, screaming and I couldn’t clasp her because not only does she not want immoderate antheral to touch her — she didn’t want anyone to touch her astatine all. I couldn’t moreover comfortableness my ain daughter.”

“My self-worth was destroyed successful those moments.”

The unfortunate past provided a statement, speaking astir nan consequences of nan trauma she knowledgeable and really nan tribunal process put a dense strain connected herself and her family’s intelligence health.

“It’s difficult for maine to hug my father, grandfather and uncles because each I tin consciousness are his hands connected me,” she said. “As overmuch arsenic I want to beryllium capable to talk to my mother and begetter astir what’s happened, it’s conscionable excessively difficult because nan look connected their faces kills maine inside.”

The unfortunate said she felt that parts of her were surgery because of nan abuse. She said shje was still moving to heal.

“When it each first happened, I felt for illustration pieces were stolen — my innocence and my self-worth. My self-worth was destroyed successful those moments,” said nan victim. “And almost 3 years later, I’m still trying to repair thing I didn’t break.”

Cady declined to make a connection astatine sentencing.

Before pronouncing nan sentence, Pickett explained his ruling by discussing really Cady’s actions will impact nan unfortunate and her family for a very agelong time.

“Both nan unfortunate effect connection of nan mother and nan unfortunate successful this lawsuit talked astir stolen innocence. That’s precisely what this lawsuit is about,” said Pickett. “(The mother) talked astir really kindness had go a weakness, that they were benignant to you, and that you took advantage of that kindness and sexually assaulted their 13-year-old daughter.”

Pickett said Cady passed a polygraph trial and nan suspect claimed his lawyer did not supply nan grounds to beryllium him not blameworthy during nan trial. Pickett besides said nan tribunal had to see nan truth that a assemblage of 12 group recovered him blameworthy aft trial.

He continued, saying that presentence investigators recovered that Cady believed he did thing wrong.

“Mr. Cady focused connected really unfair nan proceedings was and his deficiency of information successful nan intersexual acts toward nan victim,” said Pickett. “Mr. Cady’s cognition and knowing of himself is fundamentally a virtuous personification who gets successful problem because of his well-intentioned actions.”

Background

Cady was charged successful January 2022 pinch lewd behaviour pinch a 13-year-old child. The crime reportedly occurred successful her family location successful August 2021.

According to tribunal documents, nan unfortunate told investigators that Cady, who was 42 astatine nan time, had sexually abused her. The unfortunate reported location had been aggregate instances of intersexual abuse.

Cady was reportedly a individual friend of nan girl’s family.

A family personnel of nan unfortunate made a confrontational telephone telephone pinch investigators to Cady successful November 2021.

During nan call, Cady admitted to having nan girl’s manus connected him successful an inappropriate measurement during an incident successful August. He besides allegedly said he and nan woman had slept together astatine nan location connected much than 1 occasion.

Cady denied participating successful immoderate different intersexual acts pinch her, but investigators recovered Snapchat conversations betwixt nan 2 that were sexual.

Detectives said pinch Cady connected nan telephone successful December, wherever he said “something inappropriate” happened betwixt him and nan victim.

He did not spell into item but denied having intersexual interaction pinch her. Cady told nan detective he was surviving successful Millbrae, California, and didn’t expect being astatine nan location overmuch longer.

The lawsuit was initially delayed because investigators couldn’t find Cady. Eventually, they learned he had been surviving successful aggregate places, including Colorado, California and Nevada.

In May 2023, Cady was recovered successful California and extradited to Bonneville County.