How... huh... what?

A Sheboygan County judge has overturned a jury's verdict in the case of a convicted sex offender accused of trying to entice a 9-year-old girl into a park shelter to have sex, saying that the shelter the man tried to lure the girl into wasn't secluded enough to satisfy the requirements of the charge.

The girl testified at Wednesday's trial that Pask three or four times asked her to accompany him, offered her candy and made hand gestures signaling her to follow him to the shelter.

A witness overheard Pask tell three other men standing nearby, "Look at those sexy little salty girls."

A 13-year-old friend of the girl witnessed the exchange and took her home, where the girl's mother called police.

Pask was arrested a short time later, according to the complaint.

The jury visited the site on Wednesday as part of the one-day trial and found Pask guilty of felony child enticement after deliberating for about 30 minutes. The charge carries a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison.

Sheboygan County Circuit Judge Timothy M. Van Akkeren immediately overturned the verdict, however, determining that the park shelter was not a "secluded area" as required for the charge.

This one blows me away... really it does.  This seems to me like a judge who was looking for any excuse to let this guy go.  And it's not like he had no record, and you could maybe assume it wasn't what it seemed:

In 1992 he was convicted of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old boy.

In October 2005, he was convicted of a sex offender registry violation and sentenced to 30 days in jail.

So what the hell gives?  If a park shelter isn't secluded... what would count as a secluded area?  Who overturns a jury verdict over something so flimsy as that?  I predict that Bill O'Reilly will be all over this in less than 2 days.