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>> are you serious? >> so what have you been charged with? >> second degree sexual assault. of a child. >> and when you heard that, how did you feel? >> my heart dropped. i still think that this is all just a nightmare. >> when police came knocking, zack was home alone and waived his right to an attorney. an officer questioned him for ten minutes before booking him into milwaukee's county jail where zack was finally allowed to call him mother, carey. >> tell me about how you found out about the incident? >> my husband and i were coming back from a baseball game and i got the phone call and h...

>> no. >> how do you know that? >> because a lot of people like to talk about it and like the word gets around a lot. because i know there's other people in school having sex with people. i'm just the one that got caught. >> by the time they graduate, an estimated 50% of american high schoolers have been sexually active. but in some states these encounters are crimes. because the age of consent in wisconsin is 16, the 14-year-old girl couldn't agree to have sex with zack. on top of that, her interviews with police paint a complicated story of that september night. >> how does it make you feel?...

Are? >> yeah, being one out of four guys on the team, we're well known from pep rallies and games. >> like a lot of teens, zack had big plans, going to college with a sports scholarship, then joining the military. but five months ago at the start of his senior year, zack's future took a detour when he began exchanging texts with a school meat, a 14-year-old freshman girl. did you guys ever interact in person? >> it was mostly on snapchat but we would say hi to each other in the halls and then we kept talking from there. >> how did you eventually get to the point where you had sex? >> she invit...

Being accused of and arrested for. i immediately started crying. i broke down. >> how much prison or jail time is he facing potentially? >> it could be up to 40 years in prison and lifetime registry on the sex offender list. never in my wildest dreams did i think this would ever happen to one of my kids. >> for much of zack's life carey raised him as a single mom. as a kid zack struggled with bullying and depression. but things started looking up two years ago when he changed schools, joined the cheer team and started dating. did you know that zach was sexually active? >> he's had a couple of ...

So the age op consent to have sex and the age when someone is considered an adult varies from state to state and right now we're in the state of wisconsin and we're about to meet a young man who is facing felony criminal charges for having sex with a 14-year-old freshman when she was a 17-year-old senior in high school. >> all right, zack. here we go, man. let's go, zack. there we go. good job. >> this is 18-year-old zack. he's a high school senior and a member of his varsity cheerleading squad in the suburbs of milwaukee. how would kids in school describe you? >> athletic, outgoing, funny. >>...