Sentence pending for man who assaulted girls

A Carlton County man charged with sexual contact involving three juvenile girls will be sentenced in August.

Jamie Alden Godbout, 35, originally faced 10 felony charges in a 2022 case that combined charges for abuse of all three girls, but his attorneys requested the cases be split. Carlton County Attorney Lauri Ketola said her office had to honor the request, which meant dividing the charges and resulted in two of the cases being filed in 2023.

According to Ketola, a jury found Godbout guilty three weeks ago in the first case to reach trial. On Friday, July 12, Godbout agreed to plead guilty...