A 43-year-old Rochester man will spend the next several years in a Minnesota prison after pleading guilty to two counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct involving a child and being found guilty of a third count in Olmsted County in 2026, including a threat to sexually abuse the boy's younger sister if he refused to comply. Randy James Langworthy was sentenced Monday to 99 months at the Minnesota Correctional Facility in St. Cloud.
Langworthy instructed the boy to watch sexually explicit videos before sexually abusing him, and threatened to sexually abuse the child's younger sister if the boy refused to comply. The criminal complaint noted that the encounters occurred at night in the victim's bedroom, according to the same report.
As reported by the Post Bulletin, Langworthy pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct with a child under 16, and was separately found guilty of a third count without an accompanying sentence. Minnesota court records reviewed by the Post Bulletin show he received 117 days' credit for time already spent at the Olmsted County Adult Detention Center.
A Year of Repeated Abuse, and a Threat Against a Child's Sister
Charging documents state the abuse happened repeatedly — between one and two times per week — from June 2020 through October 2021, and continued even after the child told his mother, who had instructed him to stay away from Langworthy. The station's report notes that police were alerted only after the victim eventually disclosed the abuse to family and authorities.
The formal investigation began in June, leading Rochester police and Olmsted County prosecutors to file charges eight months later, in February 2024, per the same account. Langworthy pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct and was found guilty of a third count.
What the 99-Month Sentence Actually Means
Under Minnesota Statute § 244.101, offenders serving executed felony prison terms must serve at least two-thirds of that sentence in custody, meaning Langworthy is expected to spend roughly 5.5 years behind bars before he becomes eligible for supervised release, according to the Office of the Revisor of Statutes. The Post Bulletin reports he was also ordered to serve 10 years of probation after his release and to register as a predatory offender.
Second-degree criminal sexual conduct involving a victim under 13, where the offender is more than 36 months older, is a felony carrying a maximum of 25 years in prison and fines up to $35,000 under Minnesota Statute § 609.343, according to Lundgren & Johnson, PSC. Available materials identify first-degree charges but do not state that those counts required proof of penetration.
Langworthy's predatory offender registration will also carry long-term obligations. Under Minnesota Statute § 243.166, Minnesota predatory-offender registration requirements for a person convicted of criminal sexual conduct generally last at least 10 years after release from incarceration, probation, or supervised release, with lifetime registration possible for certain aggravated or repeat offenses, according to McKinney Defense. A violation can lead to felony charges and prison penalties of one to five years.
Part of a Wider Pattern of Olmsted County Prosecutions
Langworthy's sentencing adds to a string of major child sexual abuse cases moving through Olmsted County courts this year. In July, Hoodline reported that Elijah Jae Newbloom pleaded guilty to a similar charge under an agreement calling for at least 22 years in prison, a deal that included an upward sentencing departure based on admitted aggravating factors.
And in May, earlier Hoodline coverage also mentioned another local man.
