About seven months after Illinois ended cash bail as a key provision of the much-debated SAFE-T Act, fears that it would lead to a surge in freed criminal suspects committing more offenses or skipping.
A former teacher at an Elgin preschool was sentenced Thursday to four years of sex offender probation for sexually abusing two students at the school.
Frank Walaitis, 58, of the 200 block of West Main.
A teacher at a day care center in suburban Elgin has been charged with six counts of felony sexual abuse, leaving parents and students stunned and disgusted.