Co-owner of Woody's pleads guilty to lesser charge

UPDATE: A co-owner of Woody's Show Club pleaded guilty and was sentenced on a lesser charge Friday in Linn County District Court for employing underage girls to dance at the strip bar in 2010.

Bryan Bresler, 32, of Cedar Rapids, pleaded guilty to exhibiting persons, a serious misdemeanor, and was given a deferred judgment and will serve a one year self-supervised probation.

Sixth Judicial District Judge Paul Miller granted the deferred judgment because Bresler has no prior criminal history.

Bresler was originally charged with felony sexual exploitation of a minor, but the charges were amended to public indecent exposure, an aggravated misdemeanor. It was then amended this week to a charge of exhibiting persons – a person exhibited or putting a person on exhibit without his/her permission or permission from a parent or guardian -- which is a serious misdemeanor, according to Iowa law.

The allegation of the original charge was that at least two teens, ages 16 and 17, performed at the club last year, according to court records.

Brown, also charged with public indecent exposure, was scheduled to plead Friday but didn't because his attorney wasn't available.

(NOTE: A previously-published version of this story misidentified the defendant.)