Accused child sex offender gets bail reduced

A man accused of having sex with underage girls he met on Facebook had his bail reduced Thursday on the condition that he not access any social media internet sites when he gets out.

District Court Judge Daniel Boucher said Emmett L. Windyboy, upon his release, is not allowed to visit social media websites or have any digital device that can do so, and he cannot ask someone else to contact anyone on social media for him either.

Before reducing his bail from $25,000 to $1,000, Boucher asked Windyboy’s public defender, Travis Cushman, if Windyboy had a job. Cushman said it wasn’t clear if he still had his old roofing job, but if not, there were possibilities for Windyboy to work with family members in construction.

Cushman told Boucher that Windyboy would be staying at a 16th Street Havre address with his girlfriend and their three children. There is no internet at the house and no one in the house has cellphones with internet-accessing capabilities, Cushman told Boucher.

Boucher said bail would be reduced contingent that Windyboy could prove that his girlfriend is fine with him staying at the stated address.

Windyboy, born in 1993, is charged with four felony counts of sexual abuse of children.

Charging documents say Windyboy had 11 sexually explicit conversations with girls under 18. The messages indicated an "inappropriate relationship or incident existed between Emmett and said person." Seven of the 18 girls were younger than 16.

Windyboy told investigating officers he had gotten high on methamphetamine and sent the messages and had sex with a girl who "was 17 or 18 at the time."

When asked what happened between him and a 14-year-old girl, Windyboy said he wasn't sure what happened because he blacked out.