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A man has been sent to prison after entering a guilty plea in Anoka County District Court to a felony charge for his involvement in the sexual assault of a two-year-old girl at an Anoka residence in March 2008.

Andrew James Cordie, 20, 14100 Flourine St N.W., in August pleaded guilty to one of two counts of criminal sexual conduct in the first degree.

At sentencing Nov. 12, Cordie was sent to prison for 144 months with credit for 31 days served.

According to court records, Cordie will receive conditional release after serving 10 years. He must supply a DNA sample.

Earlier this year, in a plea agreement, co-defendant Heather Ann Peterson, 20, 5313 140th Ave. N.W., Ramsey, who had originally been charged with felony child endangerment in connection with the incident, instead entered a guilty plea to a gross misdemeanor.

At her sentencing, the court stayed for a year a 90-day jail sentence and put Peterson on unsupervised probation for a year. She was fined $382.

The evening of March 10, 2008 Anoka Police responded to an address on a report of a sexual assault in progress involving a two-year-old girl.

According to Peterson’s statement, she was babysitting the two-year-old twins of a friend when she answered a knock at the door to find Cordie, with whom she had had a prior sexual relationship.

He entered the house, grabbed  hold of her and the two-year-old and dragged them upstairs to a bedroom.

Cordie began sexually assaulting the two-year-old, who was on the bed, the complaint states.

Peterson said she was able to get away, ran downstairs, awakened a sleeping male, called 911, then she and the man went back upstairs where he confronted Cordie.

The man said that neither Cordie nor the two-year-old had any clothes on.

At the time of his arrest, Cordie was in possession of a large knife.

What led to the felony charge being filed against Peterson was the substance of text messages she had exchanged with Cordie before he assaulted the girl.

According to the complaint, Peterson and Cordie had been exchanging text messages throughout the day March 10, 2008.

When investigators retrieved the text messages that Peterson had sent to Cordie, they revealed that Peterson gave Cordie permission to perform the sexual acts on the two-year-old, discussed the types of acts that Cordie should perform, said it turned her on and she would take pictures of those acts.

She also text messaged Cordie that she would let him in when he came over to the residence.

In a post-Miranda statement, Peterson admitted sending the text messages to Cordie, but said she did so to set Cordie up so he would get caught by the police.

In his post-Miranda statement, Cordie said that he was just “venting” some of his thoughts in the text messages, but after initially denying any sexual contact with either girl or Peterson, he changed his story and admitted to sexual contact with the two-year-old.

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