An Illinois resident has been charged by Virginia authorities with two felonies involving sexual crimes against minors and has been ordered to turn himself in to Virginia police within 30 days, the Aurora Beacon-News reports.
Peter J LaSalle, 44, shown at right, of Elburn in Chicago’s far-western suburbs, was charged in May with two counts of online solicitation of a minor and one count of indecent liberties with a minor, the News-Virginian reports. The charges against him stemmed from a sting operation that netted Virginia Internet detectives nine men who allegedly committed crimes against children using online tools.
As part of Mr LaSalle’s bond, he can’t use the Internet or have close contact with children to whom he’s not related, the Beacon-News noted, citing court records.
“We have officers that work on this full time and other officers when they can,” the News-Virginian quoted Officer Jennifer Stevens of the Staunton Police Department, which is a member of the Southern Virginia Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, as saying. “We have a task force that works on these kinds of cases, but we were not looking for anyone in particular.”
In unrelated news, a former St Charles School District 303 teacher was sentenced last month to six years in prison for possession of child pornography, the Kane County Chronicle reports.
Jerome B McCauley, 46, of Sycamore, pleaded guilty on April 24 to possessing child pornography. In October, he had an inappropriate computer image of a child younger than 13, court records showed.
