'Master Wolf' Shane Berg gets 18 years for child sex assault

FOND DU LAC – The leader of a wolf pack-themed sex group in Fond du Lac will spend nearly two decades in prison for sexually assaulting a kindergartner trapped in the fantasy.

Fond du Lac County Circuit Judge Gary Sharpe sentenced Shane Berg, 41, of Fond du Lac, to 18 years in prison with 15 years of extended supervision for sexually assaulting a 6-year-old girl last August.

Berg acted out a fantasy where he played a dominant "Master Wolf" and Tory Tuinstra, 18, Ellen Neumann, 40, and her daughter were submissive to him, wearing dog collars at their connected apartments on Ruggles Street.

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Though Fond du Lac County Assistant District Attorney Kristin Menzl and Daryl Laatsch, Berg's defense attorney, each asked Sharpe to sentence Berg to 10 years in prison with 15 years of extended supervision, he disagreed.

"The act was appalling. It was the act of an animal without any compassion or sense of human kindness or dignity," Sharpe said. "It was an act of domination and manipulation. It had a character of evilness."

Berg, Tuinstra, Neumann and her daughter lived in two apartments separated by a door, which they left open at night. In mid-August, a citizen worried for the girl's safety alerted police after she heard Neumann screaming at her daughter, "You little (expletive), I wish you would just die."

The girl, who was in kindergarten at the time, told police that Berg "owned" her, and that he and Neumann forced her to watch as they had sex. She also told police that Berg and Tuinstra forced her to have sex with them.

Appearing in court Tuesday in an orange jail jumpsuit, Berg briefly expressed remorse.

"I've regretted everything I've done," he said.

Berg pleaded no contest to one count of second-degree sexual assault of a child in January, a felony. In February, Tuinstra was sentenced to 13 years in prison after being convicted of the same charge.

The girl's mother, Ellen Neumann, was found guilty in early January of failing to protect her daughter from sex crimes. Her sentencing is scheduled for April 19.