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 St. Charles woman is facing child pornography charges and has been denied pretrial release, officials said. Rebecca Pappas, 32, of the 42W block of Hunters Hill Drive, has been charged with three Class X felony counts of reproducing child pornography, 13 felony counts of possession of child pornography and three felony counts of posting graphic images, according to a press release from the .