A St. Paul man was sentenced to 15 years in prison Friday for raping a Wisconsin woman at his home in March shortly after they met on a dating app.

Green Isiah Kelly Jr. (Courtesy of the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office)

Ramsey County jurors in August found 39-year-old Green Isiah Kelly Jr. guilty of third-degree criminal sexual conduct, but acquitted him of the more severe first-degree criminal sexual conduct charge.

Kelly was a convicted sex offender at the time of the March 23 rape in St. Paul’s Summit-University neighborhood. In 2013, he pleaded guilty to third-degree criminal sexual conduct for raping a woman who had passed out from alcohol at a party in St. Paul, court records show.

He was sentenced to 15 years in prison, followed by 10 years of conditional release. Most people sent to prison in Minnesota serve two-thirds of their sentence in custody and the remaining on supervised release in the community.

Kelly was given an additional 15 months in prison in 2020 for repeatedly punching a fellow inmate in the face at Minnesota Correctional Facility-Faribault, according to court records. He was put on intensive supervised release in September.

“What is beyond the pale is that the defendant was on supervised release for sexual assault when he committed this sexual assault,” Assistant Ramsey County Attorney Cory Tennison told Judge Veena Iyer, who gave Kelly the maximum allowed under state sentencing guidelines.

According to the March 25 criminal complaint:

A 37-year-old woman from Menomonie, Wis., reported to police about 4:15 p.m. March 23 that she had been sexually assaulted less than two hours earlier at a home in the 800 block of Aurora Avenue. She identified the suspect as “Isiah,” who was later identified as Kelly.

She told police she had met Kelly through a dating app about a month earlier, and that they then texted and made FaceTime calls to each other.

Kelly asked if they could get together, and she said she was coming into town on March 23. Around 11:30 a.m., she agreed to cut his hair and beard, and went to his home on Aurora Avenue to meet him. He took her to a local restaurant. While there, he said he wanted to be in a relationship with her, but she told him she wasn’t interested.

When they returned to Kelly’s home, he asked her to come inside to cut his hair and offered to pay her to do so. “(The woman) was suspicious because (Kelly) was bald,” the complaint said.

When she and Kelly went into his bedroom, where she thought she was going to trim his beard, Kelly grabbed her by the arm and threw her on the bed. He ripped off her clothes and pinned his body against hers as she screamed and kicked at him. She told police she repeatedly yelled, “No! I don’t want to have sex with you!” the complaint said. He then raped her.

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Kelly stopped when his phone rang and someone knocked on the door, she told police. She was able to get past him and leave the home.

The woman drove directly to a hospital in Wisconsin. As she drove, Kelly called her multiple times. She recorded their conversations and provided them to police. Kelly apologized for not listening to her and said he let his “hormones speak for (him),” the complaint said. She told him that she had said “no” and yelled at him that what he did was “definitely not OK.”

After his arrest, Kelly underwent a suspect sexual assault examination. He declined to talk to investigators, saying that he wanted a lawyer.

After taking their longest break between home games to open a season, the Frost provided the Grand Casino Arena faithful with an array of goals that saw everything from trick shots, to some luck to final-minute drama in their 5-2 victory over the Boston Fleet on Friday night.

The Frost had gone 2-1 on the road before a break for international play, dropping their last game 4-1 in Boston. Their last match-up against the Fleet was described as a ‘big testament’ for their season by forward Taylor Heise ahead of the matchup, as they’d be entering a new home arena for Boston.

Between the return to their home ice — where they owned a 4-2 record all-time over Boston entering Friday night’s game — and the home-ice advantage was exactly what the Frost needed to get back into the win column.

Kendall Coyne Schofield got Minnesota its first goal of the night seven minutes into the first period, with what could be described as a ‘slip-and-slide’ assist from Heise. Heise had the puck just in front of Boston’s goal, and slipped on top of it as she attempted her first goal of the year. The puck was able to get over from underneath Heise to Coyne Schofield, who was waiting outside the corner of the goal, scoring her team-leading sixth goal on the year.

The Frost’s second goal in the first didn’t look as awkward. This goal attempt looked more like a trick shot, as Lee Stecklin had a clean shot 18 feet away from the goal. Stecklein’s shot bounced off of Dominique Petrie’s stick, set up right in front of the goal, and made it a 2-0 Frost lead.

The Frost’s goals after the first came with a little less flair and pause for the dramatic, but what had Frost fans cheering was save after save made by Hensley in the second.

The Fleet outshot Minnesota on 12-5 in the second, and no matter which way Boston tried to get the puck in, Hensley came up with the save and had 7,216 fans echoing her name throughout Grand Casino Area.

But the shutout wouldn’t last for Hensley, as the Fleet would get two goals 23 seconds apart from each other halfway through the third to make it a 3-2 game.

What looked like a safe lead with 11 minutes left in regulation quickly turned into tension for the Frost.

Fortunately, the Frost would be able to hold off the Fleet as their opponents sacrificed their goalie for the last minute of the game for an extra attacker.

Minnesota’s Katy Knoll stole the puck away and scored an empty-net goal from the neutral zone for her first of the season to make it a 4-2 game. Then with 8 seconds remaining, Kelly Pannek got one more empty-netter to make it a 5-2 win.

The Frost will head out on the road for their next game in Chicago against Ottawa as part of the PWHL’s Takeover Tour. The Takeover Tour features 12 neutral-site PWHL games in American and Canadian cities that have PWHL teams established in their cities. Puck drop is scheduled for 1 p.m. Sunday.

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Madison Bergmann’s victim told the court before her sentencing on Friday that his former fifth-grade teacher’s sexual misconduct “didn’t just break school rules — it broke my childhood.”

Bergmann, 26, of Lake Elmo, pursued the then-11-year-old boy throughout much of the 2023-24 school year through daily texts — more than 35,000 in all between them — and eventually kissed him on the mouth on several occasions in her classroom at Rivercrest Elementary School in Hudson, Wis., either after school or during lunch, according to court records.

Madison Lynn Bergmann (Courtesy of the St. Croix County Sheriff’s Office)

Bergmann, who pleaded guilty to three felonies, was given six years in prison by St. Croix Circuit Judge Scott Nordstrand, who said her crimes were “deliberate, purposeful” and “have been devastating to the victim, life changing for that young boy.”

In a victim impact statement submitted to the court this week, the boy wrote that he “will live with the consequences for the rest of my life, even though she is the one who chose to do this, not me.”

In September, Bergmann entered guilty pleas to one count of child enticement with sexual contact and two counts of sexual misconduct by school staff.

Several charges were dismissed as part of a plea deal she reached with prosecutors: one count each of first-degree child sexual assault of a child under age 13; use of a computer to commit a child sex crime; exposing a child to harmful descriptions; a third count of child enticement; and three additional counts of sexual conduct by a school staffer.

As part of her sentence, Bergmann will be on extended supervision for six years following incarceration. She will have to register as a sexual offender for the rest of her life, a condition that was negotiated as part of the plea deal. She was given credit for just shy of three months already served in custody.

Bergmann faced up to 18 years in prison, but the state had agreed to no more than 12 years.

Bergmann’s attorney, Joe Tamburino, asked the judge to give her probation, saying a psychosexual report concluded she is particularly amenable to outpatient sex offense treatment and a “very low risk” to reoffend. Tamburino noted that probation recommended that she be sentenced to four to six years in prison.

Boy’s dad found texts

According to the criminal complaint, the illicit conduct was first discovered after the boy’s mother discovered Bergmann talking to her son on the phone on April 29, 2024. She then emailed Bergmann, telling her to stop contacting the boy outside of school.

The mother took the boy’s phone and gave it to his father, who found the text messages and notified the school. In the boy’s desk, police found a letter that Bergmann wrote to him, saying: “I love you so much it hurts,” the complaint said.

Several printed screenshots of text messages between the boy and Bergmann were given to police. In one text, Bergmann wrote that she “wanted to just grab your face and push you to the floor and make out with you.” In another text, the teacher told the boy how she “almost kissed you when you were on the ground today but I got distracted by your stomach,” the complaint said.

In an interview with police at the school, Bergmann said she spoke with the boy over the phone four or five times. She said that she had been invited to go snowboarding at Afton Alps with the boy and his family and she exchanged phone numbers with him in case they became separated.

When Bergmann was asked if there had been any text messages exchanged between her and the boy, she requested an attorney.

Police found in Bergmann’s backpack a folder with the boy’s name on it and several handwritten notes. “In her notes she tells him that she loves him, wants to kiss him, he turns her on, and that she is obsessed with him,” the complaint said.

The boy said Bergmann had touched his hand, shin and thigh while he sat next to her desk during independent reading time and that “he did not believe any of the other kids would see it happening,” the complaint said.

The boy said Bergmann told him to stay after class and that she approached him and kissed him on the mouth. He said that Bergmann had kissed him several times in the classroom after school or during lunch.

Bergmann started teaching for the Hudson School District in fall 2022. In an email to parents after her arrest, Superintendent Nick Ouellette called the allegations “gut wrenching” and added, “I want you to know the School District is taking this very seriously.”

‘Grooming behavior’

Assistant St. Croix County Attorney Alysja Otten told the court there were 35,429 messages between Bergmann and the boy between Dec. 26, 2023, and May 1, 2024, when she was arrested.

“I think it’s important to note how this was escalating behavior, grooming behavior,” Otten said.

Judge Nordstrand said the “sheer quantity and lurid content of the defendant’s texts belie any concern for the victim, her position of trust for school, for community.” He said that while reading many of the texts, “honestly, I couldn’t tell who the 11-year-old was sometimes. I know that sounds crazy.”

Nordstrand said he suspects that if the boy’s parents had not discovered the texts, “there likely would have been a physical relationship that would have resulted in much, much greater harm.”

Bergmann sobbed during much of the sentencing hearing. She apologized “for the pain and stress that my actions have caused. … I want to make it absolutely clear that I take full accountability for every boundary that was crossed. I hope that your family has been able to begin to heal and find some peace in your life again.”

The boy’s father told the court the breadth and depth of the damage caused by Bergmann is impossible to convey in a victim impact statement. He said his son gets bullied at school and hears whispering as he walks through the hallways, like, “Oh, is that the kid that got his teacher in trouble?”

The boy has gone to counseling for anxiety and also deals with nightmares, stress and “is constantly wondering, where did his simple childhood go?” his father said.

A second teacher accused

Bergmann was one of two fifth-grade Rivercrest teachers charged with sex crimes.

Abigail Michelle Faust, 25, of Hudson, also allegedly kissed a fifth-grade boy last year in her classroom at the end of a school day. She also failed to report Bergmann’s sexual misconduct of her student, according to an August criminal complaint in St. Croix County Circuit Court charging her with three felonies.

Also in August, Faust was charged with various felonies in both St. Croix and Washington counties for allegedly sexually assaulting a Washington County 15-year-old boy while working as his family’s nanny.

Faust’s cases are ongoing.

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Minnesota United has regularly fielded calls from other clubs, both inside MLS and elsewhere in the world, inquiring about the availability of left back Joseph Rosales.

On Friday, the Loons moved on from the Honduran international, trading him to Austin FC for $1.5 million in General Allocation Money (GAM), a source confirmed to the Pioneer Press. The Athletic first reported the news Friday night.

The emergence of Anthony Markanich, who scored a stunning nine goals in 2025 at the same left wingback spot as Rosales, gave United a basis for parting ways with Rosales.

Rosales played five seasons for the Loons, with his best season coming in 2024 when he contributed seven primary assists across 2,399 minutes in 30 matches. He played 1,449 minutes in 25 regular-season MLS games last year, but his last action for Minnesota was receiving a red card for violent conduct in the MLS Cup Playoffs first-round-series-clinching Game 3 against Seattle Sounders on Nov. 8.

Rosales was also a culprit in Austin FC being able to score the winning goal to knock MNUFC out of the U.S. Open Cup semifinals on Sept. 17.

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