Man pleads guilty to sexual assault of child

A Cloquet man admitted in Carlton County Court last week that he sexually assaulted a 6-year-old girl in 2016.

Kim James Connors Jr., 32, who goes by “KC,” pleaded guilty to one charge of first-degree criminal sexual conduct, penetration or contact with a person under 13, Friday, Oct. 6, in Sixth District Carlton County Court.

According to the criminal complaint, the girl reported to staff at the Carlton County youth shelter in 2021 that Connors touched her “all the way” when she lived at his mother’s house as a foster child. She later told another foster parent the same thing after they passe...