FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 23, 2011

Track owner gets prison in sex case

By Todd Cooper
OMAHA WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER

An Omaha-area racetrack owner was sentenced Thursday to 8 to 16 years in prison for the attempted sexual assault of an underage prostitute.

Douglas County District Judge Gary Randall sentenced Ed Kosiski, co-owner of I-80 Speedway near Greenwood, Neb., to the term -- drawing loud sobs and a "you've got to be kidding me" from members of Kosiski's family.

Under the sentence, Kosiski must serve four years before he is eligible for parole and eight years before release.

Prosecutors described Kosiski as a deviant who repeatedly begged a madam for younger girls and boys. He had sex with an underage girl, prosecutors say, but they agreed to amend the charge in return for his guilty plea.

Kosiski's attorney, Glenn Shapiro, said his client suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder after, Kosiski says, he was sexually assaulted at a rest stop between Omaha and Sioux City, Iowa.

Prosecutor Shelly Stratman doubted that sexual assault report -- noting that Kosiski never reported it to police and had only vague details. Shapiro countered that Kosiski did report it to his family.


source (full story) - http://omaha.com/article/20111223/NEWS97/712239912