Leader Staff
A Birnamwood woman originally charged with 30 counts of possessing child pornography pleaded no contest Thursday to seven of the counts as part of a plea agreement. The other counts were dismissed.
Falisha Nicole Foxx, 48, also known as Edwin J. Muhs, is scheduled for sentencing on May 1, following both a pre-sentence investigation and a psycho-sexual evaluation, which is intended to determine the likelihood of a repeat offense and recommend any possible treatment plans.
According to court documents, the state and defense counsel will make a joint recommendation of a withheld sentence, suggesting instead that the court give Foxx six months in jail and eight years on probation. They will also recommend she be required to register as a sex offender.
Foxx could have faced a maximum 25 years in prison and $100,000 fine on each count.
Foxx was previously convicted in Marathon County of one count of possessing child porn. Four other counts were dismissed under a plea agreement. She was sentenced in February 2008 to four years on probation.
The Shawano County charges against Foxx date back to her arrest in Marathon County in November 2007.
According to the criminal complaint, Foxx was arrested by Everest Metro Police after a traffic stop. Police found photocopies of child pornography in her vehicle, according to the complaint.
Shawano County sheriff’s deputies were informed of her arrest because of her Birnamwood address.
Shortly after that, authorities also got a tip that a woman living in the Aniwa Trailer Park was trying to get rid of a computer that had child porn on it. According to the tip, the computer belonged to Foxx, who was renting a room in one of the trailers.
Authorities executed a search warrant at the trailer in December 2007, seizing the computer and numerous CDs, which were then sent to the Department of Criminal Investigations in Madison.
The DCI reported there were hundreds of video files and still images found of children engaged in explicit acts, according to the criminal complaint.