When Wisconsinite Stephanie Van Groll pressed charges after her ex-boyfriend nearly choked her to death, I’m sure she thought her troubles were nearly over. He’d be prosecuted, go to jail, and she’d move on with her life. Too bad the prosecutor handling her case had other ideas. Instead of doing his job, Calumet County District Attorney Ken Kratz, decided he wanted to go out with the 26-year-old and so flooded her cellphone with a series of inappropriate, harassing, text messages.Calling the battered woman, “a hot, young nymph,” Kratz inquired if she were “the kind of girl that likes secret contact with an older married elected DA—the riskier the better?” When the Van Groll didn’t respond, he pressed, “What’s the sticking point? Your low self-esteem. And you fear you can’t successfully play in my big sandbox?”Kratz says he’s embarrassed by the texts, however claims they weren’t sexual in nature, but instead, “a series of respectful messages.” Hmm. Like this one? “I would want you to be so hot and treat me so well that you’d be THE woman! R U that good?” Dude is 50 years old. In the parlance of the kids, WTF?Van Groll was reluctant to report the harassment because she was afraid that if she did, Kratz would decline to prosecute her abusive ex. But after getting 30 of such messages in three days, she filed a police report which was referred to the Wisconsin Department of Justice, who in turn launched an investigation. Kratz, who truly has balls of steel, initially resisted stepping down as chairman of the Wisconsin Crime Victims’ Rights Board (!!!), and only did so after the administrator of Department of Justice’s division of legal services, threatened to to bring the leg-humping prosecutor’s outrageous behavior to the attention of the Wisconsin District Attorneys’ Association. After much much pressure from the DOJ, Kratz finally stepped down and reported himself to the regulation office, which in turn, incredibly, did absolutely nothing. According to the Courier Life News, “The state Office of Lawyer Regulation concluded in March that Kratz’s behavior was inappropriate but did not amount to misconduct.”Understandably, the twice-victimized Van Groll is unhappy that Kratz’s cronies made the charges go bye-bye. She told AP, “Nothing really happened to him and I had three days of hell . . . They gave him a slap on the wrist and told him not to do it again. If it was anybody else that did something like this, they’d lose their job.”As for Kratz, predictably he’s just worried about covering his own ass and is whining that the real injustice is that the charges were made public. In yet another case of the mess blaming the messenger, Kratz sniffed, “After I did everything they asked of me on assurances of nondisclosure, why did they disclose it anyway at a cost to my reputation?”