MARION COUNTY — After more than 12-months, a 24-year-old Odin man was scheduled to begin serving a jail sentence today that handed down last summer for violating the conditions of his sex offender probation on multiple occasions. But the court ruled today that Thompson won’t have to serve that sentence after all.

Logan Thompson
(Source: ISP sex offender registry)

Logan Thompson, a local musician, had initially been sentenced in 2014 to 30 months probation for felony criminal sexual abuse of a person too young to give consent.

Less than one year after that sentence, however, Thompson’s probation was revoked for a DUI arrest in Jefferson County, being found drinking at the Red Dog Saloon in Salem, and for missing almost half of his sex offender counseling sessions that were part of the original plea agreement entered on the sexual abuse case.

Thompson was sentenced June 29, 2016, on the final amended petition, with his 30 month probation being extended by an additional 30 months.

He was also sentenced to serve 90 days in the Marion County Jail, but Judge Mark Stedelin ruled that Thompson wouldn’t have to report to begin serving that time until September 1, 2017.

However, in court this morning the prosecution indicated that Thompson has been in compliance with the terms since he was sentenced and no longer requested the jail sentence be completed.

Thompson was initially arrested in February 2013, after the 13-year-old victim’s grandmother filed a complaint with the Marion County Sheriff’s Department. Thompson and the girl met on a country road where they had sex.

The age of consent in Illinois is 17, at age 13 the girl was too young to legally give consent and was the reason for the Class 4 felony charge to which Thompson pleaded guilty.

A Class 2 charge of aggravated criminal sexual abuse that was reduced was because Thompson is more than 5-years older than the minor victim. That charge could have resulted in a prison sentence of between 3 and 7 years.