Guess he was just clowning around
A Wisconsin clown who worked children’s parties may also be a sexual predator: Not a desirable situation.
Reports television news channel 4 in Milwaukee:
He works as a clown, but what he’s accused of isn’t funny at all.
Ron Schroeder is in jail, accused of sexually assaulting a woman and taking nude pictures of her.
He’s better known as “Silly The Clown,” and he’s performed at many children’s parties.
Schroeder has a troubled history; something most parents didn’t know when they hired him for birthday parties.
That was the case for one Cudahy mother. She was disturbed when we told her of Schroeder’s recent arrest. “Very shocked,” says Renee McElwee. “We had absolutely on idea that anything like that was going on with him.”
Two years ago McElwee hired Ron Schroeder to be a magician at her twin boys’ 6th birthday party. “The kids had a ball and there were probably 20 kids there that day, they all played with him. He dressed them up and put makeup on them.”
McElwee found Schroeder’s online at sillytheclown.com. She tells us, “(There were) lots of comments on the web site about what a great job he did, and we added our own saying he was really an outstanding performer.”
What McElwee and other parents didn’t know was Schroeder has a troubled past. He’s never been convicted of a serious crime but according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Greenfield Police considered Schroeder a suspect in the 1991 death of his infant daughter. He was also served with two restraining orders.
Now - Schroeder sits in a Waukesha County jail cell. He’s charged with sexually assaulting a woman while she was unconscious at his Brookfield home. He’s also charged with taking nude photos of her …..without her consent.