Man gets 20 years in sex assault case

The Daily Inter Lake

Ronald Glick was sentenced Thursday to 20 years with 15 suspended for sexual assault.

A Flathead County jury convicted him in July of assaulting a 13-year-old girl at his former Main Street business, Arcadia.

Glick has been in jail since he was arrested in Washington in February 2004 and was returned to Montana to face charges. He always has said he was innocent.

A sex-offender evaluation deemed Glick at low risk of sexually assaulting anyone else.

Deputy County Attorney Lori Adams asked District Judge Kitty Curtis to follow a probation and parole officer's recommendation of 20 years with 15 suspended.

She also suggested public-defender fees of $7,000 or so for attorneys David Stufft and Ed Falla, and that Glick not be released from prison until he goes through at least the first phase of sex-offender treatment.

Falla said Glick poses no threat and has been accused of having one victim, one time.

Curtis said she considered the impact on Glick's victim.

Glick's insistence that he is innocent did not influence her sentence, she said.

She ordered him to pay $5,000 in public-defender fees, plus the $1,500 cost of his sex evaluation.

Glick plans to appeal.

"Mr. Glick, good luck with wherever life takes you from here," she said.

Glick has filed a multi-million-dollar lawsuit against the city of Kalispell and individual employees, along with the victim's grandparents, alleging witness tampering, slander, defamation of character, harassment and emotional harm.