Everyday thousands of children are being sexually abused. You can stop the abuse of at least one child by simply praying. You can possibly stop the abuse of thousands of children by forwarding the link in First Time Visitor? by email, Twitter or Facebook to every Christian you know. Save a child or lots of children!!!! Do Something, please!

3:15 PM prayer in brief:
Pray for God to stop 1 child from being molested today.
Pray for God to stop 1 child molestation happening now.
Pray for God to rescue 1 child from sexual slavery.
Pray for God to save 1 girl from genital circumcision.
Pray for God to stop 1 girl from becoming a child-bride.
If you have the faith pray for 100 children rather than one.
Give Thanks. There is more to this prayer here

Please note: All my writings and comments appear in bold italics in this colour

Wednesday 26 December 2018

So Many Stories Not Fit for the Season on Today's USA PnP List

St. Louis pizzeria owner, pastor found guilty
of 8 child sex charges
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A former pastor and owner of a St. Louis pizza parlor and martial arts studio has been found guilty of eight federal charges related to child sex abuse.

U.S. District Court Judge Audrey Fleissig on Wednesday found Dojo Pizza’s Loren “Sensei” Copp guilty of charges including three counts of production and attempted production of child pornography.

Copp faces between 15 years and life in prison. His sentencing is April 5.

Prosecutors say 49-year-old Copp groomed and sexually abused two minor girls and tried to get others to send him explicit photos.

An Associated Press request for comment to the jail where Copp is being held was not immediately returned Wednesday.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports he only answered “yes” when asked Wednesday by the judge whether he understood the verdict.




Nebraska teacher faces trial on charges of
sexual assaulting children
By John Chapman 


OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) -- Former Fontenelle Elementary School teacher Gregory Sedlacek will face trial in district court accused of seven counts of child sexual assault. He waived his preliminary hearing on Wednesday.

Sedlacek is currently facing six counts of First Degree assault and one count of Third Degree assault.

The case came to light with Sedlacek's arrest on December 3rd for the alleged assault of a 7-year-old girl at Fontenelle, where Sedlacek was then employed.

The other cases and charges surfaced in the investigation that followed.

If convicted, Sedlacek could spend the rest of his life in prison.

The shackled suspect facing serious charges stood before the judge Wednesday. Deputy County Attorney Molly Keane said, “The allegations involve six separate victims.”

Defense Attorney Marc Delman said, “My client is presumed innocent and he is innocent.”

In November, teachers at Fontenelle Elementary said they saw Sedlacek behaving in an inappropriate manner with a student.

Keane said, “Teachers observed him on the playground and they saw him with his hand up her skirt and they saw him carry her over to a slide where he sat at the bottom of the slide with her straddling him. That was eventually reported to the Omaha police department.”

Prosecutors say Sedlacek then admitted to improperly touching other students.

Sedlacek’s attorney said the presumption of innocence remains, “Not whether the statements were made. I don’t know, I wasn’t there. That’s the reason for one of the suppression hearings as well as right now it’s purely hearsay.”

Sedlacek remains held without bond.





Military man who was stationed in Texas sentenced for soliciting minors online

An out-of-town military man was sentenced to 10 years in prison, Jan. 5, 2018 for going to meet and have sex with a teen in San Angelo.

Geovanni Dillan Severin, 36, who was stationed at Goodfellow Air Force Base when the offense occurred, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for online solicitation of a minor.

In 2016, Severin talked to someone he thought was a 13-year-old girl on the online advertisement website Craigslist. He was actually interacting with an agent with the Texas Department of Public Safety conducting an undercover operation focused on identifying and arresting predators who use the internet for child sex. 





Case dismissed for Texas man charged with
kidnapping and sexual assault of teen girl

Alegandro Herman Fevala was scheduled to appear before a District Court Judge on Sept. 17 to face kidnapping charges — a first degree felony punishable between 5 and 99 years of prison confinement — as well as charges of sexual assault and sexual abuse.

On Sept. 7, 2018, Fevala's case was dismissed.

Fevala was arrested in March 2017 on suspicion of aggravated kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 17-year old girl.

According to an arrest affidavit, Fevala tricked the teen through Facebook, forced her into his vehicle and drove her to a residence in the 1300 block of North Jefferson Street.

According to the motion filed by the District Attorney's office, the reason for the case's dismissal was listed as "at the request of the victim."

I'm sure it had nothing to do with Favela being a gang member. I'm sure there's no possibility that the witness was threatened. I'm sure justice was done for this girl. I'm sure the earth is flat and the moon is made out of cheese.





Amber Alert suspect appears in NY court on
child sex abuse charges
By:  Howard Thompson 

ROCHESTER, NY (WROC) - The man facing charges after police say he took a 14-year-old Rochester girl to New York City was back in court Wednesday.

Gonzalez pleaded not guilty to charges of criminal sexual act, use of a child in a sexual performance, and sexual abuse -- all felonies. He was indicted on those charges last week.

Robert Gonzalez was arrested earlier this month after police say he took a 14-year-old girl from her home in Rochester. Police said the girl had gone willingly with Gonzalez and the two were in some type of relationship.

An Amber Alert was issued on December 3 for the girl. The following day, police found both the victim and Gonzalez in Brooklyn.

Gonzalez was initially arrested on a warrant in an unrelated case, but police eventually brought charges for sexual abuse against him. He is also facing child porn charges in federal court. Prosecutors say they found recordings of sexual encounters between Gonzalez and the victim.

An order of protection has been issued for the 14-year-old girl in the case.

Gonzalez is being held without bail in Monroe County Jail.





A Texas Woman Survived 17 Years of Horrific Abuse at the Hands of Her Aunt and Uncle

One Survivor's Story
CHRISTINE PELISEK, People

Abby Alvarado was a scared 8-year-old in 1996 when she, along with her brother and sister, were taken from their mother’s home by Child Protective Services in San Antonio, Texas. The three siblings were sent to live in Hawaii with their uncle, Eusebio Castillo, a Sergeant in the U.S. Army, and his wife, Laura, a childcare worker.

Although she was sad to leave her mom, she thought living in Hawaii would be an adventure. Instead, it turned out to be her worst nightmare.

Over a 17-year period, until she turned 25, Abby says she was physically and sexually abused by both her uncle and aunt while the family lived in Hawaii and then Texas. Even more shocking, when she turned 15, she says the Castillo’s, who had adopted her and her siblings, forced her to bear three children with Eusebio, which they claimed as their own.

And Laura was a childcare worker! Good grief!

“They were in bed, and they told me to sit down on the bed with them,” Abby, now 30, tells PEOPLE. “We’re gonna have a talk. This is what you’re gonna do, and that’s it. End of story.”

In 2005, as a 17-year-old high school student, she gave birth to her first daughter. Three years later, she gave birth to her second daughter, followed by a son in 2011.

Eusebio Castillo

Abby says she finally found the courage to leave around 2013 when she met her future husband Rudy at the Castillo’s San Antonio home where they were making claims that Abby’s oldest daughter had the power to heal diseases.

“He came to the church one day, and something told me that he’s going to be the one helping me,” she says.

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With the help of Rudy, she fled the Castillo’s house with her three children and went to the police on July 20, 2014.
Laura Castillo

“I knew in life I was going to grow up and get older and he was going to want something young,” she says about Eusebio. “‘I was like, ‘I have two girls. They’re next. They’re next in line. There’s  nobody else here.’ I did it for my girls and my son because they’re my world.”

After Abby escaped, the Castillos fled San Antonio and were finally taken into custody in 2017.

In June of 2018, Laura Castillo,46, pleaded guilty to three counts of sexual assault and sentenced to 33 years in prison. Eusebio Castillo, 48, pleaded guilty in October and received 5 life sentences.

Abby and Rudy Alvarado

“These people are just evil, period, end of story,” Bexar County Criminal District Attorney Nicholas LaHood tells PEOPLE. “There’s not a lot of things that shock us, unfortunately, but this is definitely up there of the level of depravity that you hope that nobody else is ever exposed to.”

Today, Abby says she is finally putting the pieces of her life back together.

“I’m able to sleep, now without having to wake up to Rudy trying to hold me and getting scared,” she says. “I don’t do that anymore, so it feels really great knowing that I don’t have to be scared anymore, knowing that he’s never gonna get out.”

And she hopes by sharing her story, it will help others.

“I don’t want people to feel sorry for me,” she says. “I’m opening up for women and people to hear my story and learn from it.”




DALLAS PASTOR AND GOSPEL SINGER 'THE APOSTLE' CHARGED WITH CHILD SEX ABUSE
BY TOM PORTER, Newsweek

A Dallas-area gospel singer and pastor known as “The Apostle” has been arrested on child sex abuse charges. 

Darrell Maurice Yancey, 59, of Grand Prairie, was taken into custody Thursday by Arlington police, reported the Dallas Morning News. 

He faces three counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and four counts of sexual assault of a child, as well as a charge of driving with an invalid license.

The abuse allegations stem back to the 1990s and early 2000s. 

According to an arrest warrant affidavit obtained by WFAA, one of the victims was 13 when first assaulted by Yancey, her pastor at the time. She claims to have conceived three children by him.

She confronted him about the alleged abuse in a phone call earlier this year, according to the affidavit. 

According to the outlet, another of the victims is his daughter—who confirmed to the outlet she is cited in the affidavit. 

Yancey has preached at several Dallas area churches, and in videos he has posted on YouTube can be seen singing and preaching in various venues.

Yancey remained in custody Friday night at the Tarrant County jail, with bail set at $85,485, reported the Dallas News. 





IOWA MAN SENTENCED FOR CHILD SEX ABUSE  
By: Mike Bunge 

OSAGE, Iowa – A Mitchell County man is sentenced to probation for sexually abusing an 11-year-old child.

Louis Andris Stroberg, 70 of Osage, was arrested in August 2017 and eventually pleaded guilty to one count of lascivious acts with a child. Authorities say the abuse happened in June 2017.

Stroberg has now been sentenced to three years of supervised probation. He must also register with the Iowa Sex Offender Registry and complete any recommended treatment program.

Sure hope it was a very minor abuse! Unfortunately, we are not going to find out from this meager report.





Man gets 94 years in Oregon child sex-abuse case

By Jack Moran 

A former Springfield resident was sentenced Friday to nearly 94 years in prison for molesting two children between 2011 and 2014.

Roy Jay Williams, 45, denied any wrongdoing when he addressed Lane County Circuit Judge Suzanne Chanti during his sentencing hearing, asserting he had “never touched” the two victims.

Upon imposing the mandatory 1,125-month sentence sought by prosecutor Stephen Morgan, Chanti commented that she reached her decision after listening to Williams’ denial.

A Lane County jury last week found Williams guilty of 17 felony charges including multiple counts of first-degree sexual abuse and first-degree unlawful sexual penetration of two children younger than 14.

Chanti said jurors got it right. “I heard the evidence and I concur with the jury’s verdict,” she said.

Williams lived in Springfield’s Thurston area when the crimes occurred. He later moved to Aumsville, and was arrested in the case last December after the two victims came forward to accuse him of abusing them.

Police said after making the arrest that the children had lived in the same area or regularly visited the area where Williams had resided in Springfield.

The father of one victim said at Williams’ sentencing hearing that he doesn’t know if the children “will ever recover” from Williams’ crimes against them, and requested Chanti impose a maximum sentence. “I’m asking that you show him no leniency,” the man said.

One of the victims attended Friday’s hearing but did not speak. Chanti called the child “strong and intelligent” and urged the youngster to get counseling and “not allow this event to define you or limit you.”

The Register-Guard typically does not identify crime victims.

The judge also acknowledged evidence that Williams had endured a very difficult childhood, and said it appeared to her that Williams’ is a case where “the victim becomes the victimizer.”

As is so often the case, child sex abuse is frequently inter-generational. Nevertheless, it is no excuse.

Under state Measure 11 guidelines, Williams must serve the entire sentence with no chance at early release. His attorney, Jennifer Lang Perkins, had asked Chanti to sentence her client to 25 years in prison.





As Prosecutor's life appears to spiral out of control - alleged child sex abuser walks free
CHRIS HARRIS 

An Iowa man accused of sexually abusing a 13-year-old boy in 2017 was released from custody on Monday after the prosecutor handling his case was cited for being drunk in court.

PEOPLE learns from online court records that Dennis Michael Simmerman, a 23-year-old Murray resident, had been charged with third-degree sexual abuse and disseminating obscene material to a minor by telephone for alleging sending inappropriate images to the alleged victim, who he was accused of sexually assaulting.

Simmerman, who spent 15 months in jail before his release this week, had agreed to a plea deal back in October, his attorney told the Des Moines Register, that would have required he register as a sex offender.

But on Oct. 18, moments before Simmerman’s scheduled plea hearing, the prosecutor, Clarke County Attorney Michelle Rivera, was cited by a judge after arriving to court intoxicated.

Rivera, who was apparently having difficulty standing and was slurring her speech, pleaded guilty to the courthouse intoxication and paid a $65 fine, according to court records.

The following day, prosecutors missed the deadline to file for an extension in the case, and now, because Simmerman was denied his right to a speedy trial, the charges have been dismissed.

The decision to drop the case was made by District Court Judge Martha Mertz.

“The county attorney’s unavailability at the last hearing was the finale following unexplained periods of inactivity and lack of responsiveness that prevented disposition of this case within one year,” Mertz said, according to the Des Moines Register.

Simmerman’s lawyer, Marshall Orsini, told the Register his client’s release was justified.

“If the defendant is not put on trial [and] is not tried within a year, you have the potential to have that case dismissed, and that’s what happened here,” Orsini told the paper.

Rivera lost her job in November, when she was voted out of office.

Records show Rivera was also arrested last week on suspicion of operating a vehicle while intoxicated and child endangerment.

Officers stopped her as she was dropping her daughter off at daycare.

It was unclear Friday if she had entered pleas to the charges or had a defense attorney.





Maryland man convicted of raping 3-5 y/o

Catalina Righter
Carroll County Times

Ryan Allen Will, of Westminster, was convicted Thursday, Dec. 20, by a Carroll County jury of three counts related to sexual abuse of a child.

Judge J. Barry Hughes ordered that Will be held without bond pending sentencing, scheduled for March 10.

The jury found Will, 32, guilty of sexual child abuse, continuing course of sexual abuse to a child and sodomy.

Hughes also ordered a presentence investigation and mental health assessment.

According to evidence presented during trial, in March of this year, a 5-year-old girl told her mother about abuse committed by Will that had happened over the course of about two years and started when the child was 3.

The child’s mother contacted the Westminster Police Department, which brought the case to the Carroll County Advocacy and Investigation Center, according to a news release from the Carroll County State’s Attorney’s Office.

A detective investigated and found evidence that resulted in a March 29 indictment by a Carroll County grand jury.

The child, now 6, testified during the jury trial, which began Tuesday, Dec. 18.

“She described in detail how all of the sexual abuse occurred when her mother was working late at night and while she was left in Ryan Will’s care,” according to the release.

“The successful prosecution of a sexual child abuse case involving a young victim is very challenging. We are indebted to this 6-year-old child victim whose bravery in testifying before the jury was critical in securing the conviction,” said Brian DeLeonardo, county state’s attorney in the release.





Wyoming sheriff seeking man on sexual abuse charges
EastIdahoNews.com 

TETON COUNTY, Wyoming — The Teton County, Wyoming Sheriff’s Office is seeking information about a man wanted for second degree sexual abuse of a minor.

Marco Antonio Moreno-Castro, 27, is 5′ 5″ tall, 140 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. He was last known to be working as a dishwasher in Jackson, Wyoming but is believed to have left the area. He may have family ties to the Blackfoot area.

If anyone has any information on the whereabouts of Moreno-Castro, please contact Detective Sergeant Todd Stanyon at the Teton County, Wyoming Sheriff’s Office, (307) 733-4052. As always, you may remain anonymous.

The charges stem from an incident in September 2017, where he is alleged to have engaged in sexual activity with a child under the age of 14.




Prosecutors charged a security guard with sex abuse

He kept his state license, as Illinois struggles to oversee a growing profession

Joe Mahr and Cecilia ReyesContact Reporters
Chicago Tribune

The encounter happened in an Oak Park hospital four years ago and lasted just a few minutes.

A uniformed security guard gave a teen boy directions to the bathroom. The guard followed him in and — authorities later said — blocked the door with one foot.

According to the boy, police and prosecutors, the guard told the scared boy to unzip his pants, then reached two fingers into the teen’s underwear.

The guard had been approved to work by the state despite arrests for weapons and drugs. And he was able to keep his professional license, even though he was convicted of misdemeanor battery for what happened with the boy in the bathroom.

The state won’t explain why it let the guard keep his license. The victim’s mother said she can’t imagine how: “There’s no way in hell you can ever argue with me to get me to understand.”

The case of licensed security guard Jose I. Rubio and others uncovered by the Tribune highlight another dimension of the lax oversight first exposed in the paper’s “On Guard, Unchecked” series. Despite being in a position of authority and tasked with protecting the public, security guards in Illinois can obtain state licenses even with criminal records and continue to work after encounters with law enforcement, a Tribune investigation found.

The investigation found that nearly 1,800 current and former security workers were disciplined by the state over criminal convictions or failure to report criminal cases.

Jose I. Rubio (Chicago Police Department)

In the Tribune’s latest review, reporters pored over dozens of records of those disciplined to find that the state approved applications from felons with charges involving drugs, guns, burglary and even attempted murder. State law doesn’t prohibit anyone from being licensed outright — unlike Wisconsin, for example, where felons can’t become security guards.

The Tribune also found that when there was a criminal allegation against a licensed guard, state oversight was largely secretive, often reactionary and riddled with delays. The result: Guards routinely were allowed to stay in the profession.

At times, delays were so long that guards convicted of crimes such as sexual abuse served their sentences and were released from prison by the time the state got around to meting out discipline. More than half of the 1,800 disciplined got probation, while nearly a hundred had their licenses revoked.

The world of security workers, which includes guards and other related positions, is growing here and nationally. As of June, there were more than 97,000 licensees in the security field in Illinois, though some might not be currently working.

The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation — which oversees a range of licensed workers, from barbers to architects — is responsible for licensing security guards. But state regulators’ investigations are often more concealed than police cases, the Tribune found.

Under state law, all records gathered by investigators from Professional and Financial Regulation are secret. The public can see only an initial disciplinary complaint and final order produced by the agency. That makes it difficult to determine how well cases were investigated by looking at state records alone.

The Tribune asked the state to see all its records on Rubio’s licensing. Citing confidentiality provisions in the law, it released a four-page order of the final discipline in the hospital incident and a short email sent to the parties involved. It also released an order for Rubio’s license to be issued initially on probationary status because of previous criminal charges.

The documents show that the state’s only description of what happened in the hospital boiled down to the year the crime occurred and one word, “battery.” Unmentioned are what police and prosecutors say happened, the fact that a teen was the victim and that the crime was committed by Rubio while on duty.

State officials declined a request from the Tribune for an on-the-record interview. The Department of Financial and Professional Regulation also declined to provide written answers to specifically address any one of dozens of detailed questions the Tribune submitted about the agency’s practices and its handling of cases.

Instead, a department spokesman issued a three-paragraph statement in which he explained the process the agency uses to screen applicants, investigate misconduct and deliver discipline.

He noted the law requires a case-by-case review of all applicants and that some allegations take longer to investigate because they are “complex.” But he declined to discuss any individual case, such as Rubio’s.

Misconduct and crimes overlooked
To get a glimpse into how the state keeps watch over security guards, the Tribune reviewed disciplinary data, obtained records for more than 100 guards who committed criminal offenses, and reviewed police reports and other records.

State administrative code requires guards to report arrests and convictions within 30 days on the honor system. Rubio never did, and nor have others, the Tribune found.

Absent a tip from the public, the agency is alerted by state police only of Illinois convictions. That can take months, or sometimes more than a year, after police make an arrest.

Donald L. Johnson (Elmhurst Police Department)

Even that alert isn’t foolproof. Take the case of longtime guard Donald L. Johnson, who got his license in 1998.

In 2010, police and court records show, he shoplifted three bottles of liquor from an Elmhurst grocery store. A police officer tried to apprehend him but got caught in the door of Johnson’s car as the vehicle sped off.

The officer freed himself after about 100 feet, while Johnson led police on a 26-mile chase that ended with him crashing into a car, injuring two others.

The incident made local news and resulted in Johnson being sent to prison for aggravated battery to a peace officer and burglary. But Financial and Professional Regulation records show the agency did not open a disciplinary case on its licensee until four years later.

By then, Johnson had committed two more crimes, done a second stint in prison and began a job as a security guard with an Elmhurst firm based 3 miles from the grocery store. The firm told the Tribune it trusted the state to vet Johnson’s background and hired him because he still had a license.

Johnson fought to keep his license, telling the state his crimes were minor, but the state revoked his license in 2016. The Tribune could not locate him for comment.

Regulators also miss red flags unearthed by other agencies, such as the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services.

Richard Gaynor III (DuPage County sheriff's office)

As early as 2000, the child welfare agency opened an investigation into security guard Richard Gaynor III. Gaynor eventually admitted to asking a close relative, who was a minor at the time, to watch a sexually graphic video, according to later court testimony about the agency’s investigation.

He was charged in 2006 with molesting the same relative and the relative’s best friend. And in 2007 Gaynor was convicted of sexual exploitation of a child.

“This man has done things beyond the boundaries of humanity ...” one of the victims testified in court. “I hate him for all he has done to me and my best friend. He has left us with scars that nothing can erase.”

Even though its licensee was at the center of the criminal case — and in the crosshairs of child welfare investigators — Financial and Professional Regulation did not open an investigation of Gaynor until 2009. That was nine years after DCFS opened its first case, three years after Gaynor was charged and two years after he was convicted.

In Financial and Professional Regulation’s files, there is no explanation for the delay, except that the department “received information” of the case in March 2009.

By the time that agency began its investigation into Gaynor’s license, he had served 1 1/2 years in prison on the exploitation charges, registered as a sex offender and been sentenced to 90 days in jail for violating an order of protection from his first wife. Only then did the agency begin the process to pull his license, declaring that “the safety and welfare of the public imperatively required emergency action.”

That's the funniest thing I've read in a long time!

“The nature of the respondent's conduct that led to his convictions constitute a danger to the public if he is allowed to continue to work in the security profession,” the order read.

The Tribune could not locate Gaynor for comment.

As part of its request for state records on discipline of security workers, the Tribune sought detailed data on every disciplinary case since 2010, but the state provided only limited data on open cases.

A Chicago liquor store was ordered to hire armed security guards. For one woman, the consequences were fatal.

Of 57 open cases that had gone to hearings, the Tribune found that it took roughly three months, on average, for agency investigators to determine if the guard did something bad enough to consider discipline. It took another roughly eight months for agency lawyers to file a formal complaint.

In all, the cases have been open for an average of 16 months.

In a 2017 slideshow on agency goals, Financial and Professional Regulation acknowledged it needed to develop a process to “ensure that high-priority cases are moved more quickly relative to lower-priority cases.” 

What’s been done since then? Department of Financial and Professional Regulation officials wouldn’t say.

Nor would the agency directly address the delays, except to say in its statement: “The total length of time a case is open varies depending on the specific alleged facts which can often be complex. While some complex cases can take many months, other cases are quickly resolved.”

The agency’s data on open cases show a heavy caseload for the one investigator handling guards. That investigator had 27 open cases, while also juggling 95 other cases for licensees in other professions.

Department statistics, meanwhile, reveal that the vast majority of cases end up as plea deals and that, when there is discipline, the guards often get probation.

Convicted, still licensed
Convictions don’t necessarily keep people from entering the profession, either.

Illinois law says that applicants are “presumed to be unfit” if they’ve been convicted of a felony involving bodily harm, violence, weapons or theft.

The agency also considers a host of factors, such as the nature of the crime, how it relates to the profession and whether the applicant has been “sufficiently rehabilitated.” The General Assembly last year softened the law by saying a conviction can’t be the sole reason someone is denied a license.

Not listing arrests or convictions on an application is supposed to count against an applicant.

The state declined to release data on how many guards had convictions at the time they were licensed. But a department spokesman said that, in general, the agency requires those with felony convictions to explain in an interview the nature of the crime and how they’ve been rehabilitated.

“The Department will then make a licensing decision based on the findings of the interview and whether they believe the applicant would be a threat to public safety as a licensee," the spokesman said in his statement.

Cases reviewed by the Tribune included a guard who lied on his application by not disclosing his conviction for obstructing police, was caught lying and was allowed a license anyway. Two years later, he was arrested for sawing catalytic converters off cars in Berwyn. His license wasn’t renewed.

The Tribune also examined the case history of a guard who was convicted of attempted murder in 1991 after he shot a neighbor at least six times, paralyzing him from the waist down, court records show. At the time he applied for his license with the state in 2015, he also had been convicted of burglary and a drug offense. The state issued him a probationary license; it expired in May.

A man who had tried to steal watches at a jewelry store put his hands up and lay on the floor. Then the security guard shot him.

In another example, a man who had been convicted of receiving stolen property in 2003 got a state license less than a decade later. In 2017, he admitted to police to being part of a theft ring that intercepted shipments of new Apple laptops. His license was suspended.

When Rubio applied to be a security guard in 2011, he noted a 2009 misdemeanor conviction for illegal possession of ammunition. Arrest records from that case show that Chicago police found a 9 mm round, marijuana, plastic bags and a digital scale in Rubio’s Humboldt Park apartment.

According to the police report, Rubio said he was a member of the Insane Latin Dragons and that he was “sorry for selling cannabis and will never do it again.”

That's the 2nd funniest thing I've read in a long time!

Kyle Hertter, now 21, was touched by security guard Jose I. Rubio at Rush Oak Park Hospital in 2014 when Hertter was 17 and training to be an emergency medical technician. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune

State regulators, in their approval of Rubio, noted only the charge for which he was convicted.

The state granted Rubio a license on “probation” status for two years, meaning he could work like any other guard but risked quicker and sterner discipline for any misdeed.



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