Second woman pleads guilty in staged Waldo sexual assault

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Julie R. Bernet, the Bucyrus woman who hired a man to physically assault her and sexually assault a friend, pleaded guilty Friday in federal court to wire fraud.

Bernet, 39, admitted that she and 23-year-old Lindsey D. Crawford (who pleaded guilty last week to the same charge) hired a man to attack them in the garage of Crawford’s Waldo home on November 25, 2008.

Bernet and Crawford initially claimed that masked men hit them on the head with bottles as they exited the garage. Initial

reports said one of the women claimed that she was sodomized by the assailants.

In reality, prosecutors say Bernet and Crawford hired their attacker, Gordon F. Reabe Jr. of

Lee’s Summit, after meeting him at a restaurant in Harrah’s Casino the night before the attack. According to charges that were filed, Crawford agreed to let Reabe sexually assault her, but only if she was knocked unconscious (which didn’t go as planned; read the dirty details here).