Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, said judgment should be withheld until the investigations are complete. Staff members work with kids who have committed serious offenses — not, as Vos put it, for “ding dong ditch.”

“It’s tragic if it’s true,” Vos said of the allegations. “But I also want to make sure that we have all of the information … I don’t want to wave a big wand and say all the people are bad.”

The warning from Kreul was forwarded to the Department of Corrections and never shown to Walker, the governor’s spokeswoman has said. State Rep. Peter Barca, D-Kenosha, said Thursday “someone in his office should be fired,” adding correspondence from officeholders like judges should carry more weight.

Vos called the criticism disingenuous and said the sexual assault was an “isolated incident.”

“I get a lot of emails and a lot of letters from people all over the state. My staff tries to review and does, hopefully, review single letter,” he said. “But to somehow say Governor Walker should have read a letter five years ago, blah blah blah, I think it’s a lot of political gamesmanship and I wish we wouldn’t do that.”

For his part, Kreul said it was an insult to find out the governor never read his letter.