Category Archive for : ‘CHICAGO’

February 8, 2021
Rebekah Riess, Chris Boyette and Hollie Silverman
ABC 7 Chicago

Two men who appeared on the Netflix docuseries “Cheer” have been arrested and charged in separate sex crime cases involving minors, authorities said.

The arrests on Wednesday of Mitchell Ryan and Robert Joseph Scianna came nearly five months after federal prosecutors in Chicago accused “Cheer” star Jeremiah “Jerry” Harris of “enticing an underage boy to produce sexually explicit videos and photos of himself.” He was later indicted on additional charges.

The “Cheer” docuseries follows the cheerleading squad from Navarro College in Corsicana,

January 22, 2021
Kaitlin Edquist
Chicago Tribune

A west suburban man was recently charged with five felonies connected to alleged sexual crimes against a Glenview minor, police announced Wednesday.

Alan Lee Sisson, 72, of the first block of Fontaine Court, Bloomingdale, was charged with involuntary sexual servitude of a minor, child pornography involving both moving depictions and still images, grooming and indecent solicitation of a minor.

An investigation began Sept. 8, 2020, after a complaint was filed that Sisson was having “sexually explicit online conversations” with a 14-year-old Glenview resident, according to police.

Glenview Police Department

November 12, 2020
Vandana Rambaran
NY Post

A Chicago man accused of sexual assault and robbery was released on $500 bail after a judge ruled that he was at a higher risk of contracting COVID-19 due to his precondition of asthma, but after hearing more evidence in the cases, he was ordered back into custody. He has not been seen since then.
Rene Chandler, 31, was on an electronic monitor awaiting trial on charges that he sexually assaulted two women he met on dating apps when he assaulted and robbed a third woman

October 26, 2019
ABC 7 Chicago

ELGIN, Ill. — An Elgin man is accused of distributing multiple videos of children being sexually abused and tortured.

David C. Vogt, 32, was charged with five counts of reproducing child pornography and five counts of possessing child pornography, according to the Kane County state’s attorney’s office.

On June 13, a detective allegedly discovered five videos being downloaded from Vogt’s computer, prosecutors said. Each video allegedly depicts an adult sexually abusing a child, possibly as young as 2 years old, and subjecting them to torture.

Vogt is being held