Prosecutors say a man told a child, whom he solicited on Snapchat, “you earned yourself some food,” and took her to eat after he sexually abused her in the parking lot of a store in Algonquin.
Yan C. Moreno-Martinez, 26, of Carpentersville, was charged with production of child sexual abuse material, aggravated criminal sexual abuse, indecent solicitation and two counts of traveling to meet a minor.
A criminal complaint filed in McHenry County Circuit Court alleges Moreno-Martinez solicited a juvenile while communicating with her electronically before traveling to her residence on October 28.
He picked her up in Crystal Lake and transported her to another location where he sexually abused her, the complaint and a grand jury indictment said.
The indictment said Moreno-Martinez also solicited the victim to appear in a video in which she was depicted in a lewd exhibition where her buttocks were visible.
Prosecutors said the victim was 16 years old and Moreno-Martinez befriended her on Snapchat.
Prosecutors said Moreno-Martinez knew the girl’s age because of an encounter with police just days earlier on October 16.
Officers were called to a movie theater after a physical altercation between the two.
Moreno-Martinez found out the victim was texting another male and he put his hands around her throat, prosecutors said.
Police informed Moreno-Martinez of the girl’s age and her mother picked her up from the theater.
Moreno-Martinez continued to communicate with the girl after that incident and pushed her to perform oral sex on him on October 28, prosecutors said.
A video from Home Depot in Algonquin confirmed Moreno-Martinez’s vehicle was in the parking lot where the victim said that they went and he sexually abused her, prosecutors said.
Moreno-Martinez told the child, “You earned yourself some food,” after the assault and took her to eat, prosecutors said.
Court documents said Moreno-Martinez picked the girl up and transported her to other locations, including back parking lots, in order to engage in sex acts with her.
She obtained an order of protection and prosecutors say there are allegations that he tried contacting a friend of the victim for purposes of making contact with her after the order was in place.
The charges were filed against Moreno-Martinez late last month and he has since been taken into the custody of the McHenry County Jail.
McHenry County Judge Cynthia Lamb granted a petition to detain Moreno-Martinez pending trial filed by the state’s attorney’s office.
“The defendant intentionally befriended a 16 year old minor and pushed her to have sexual acts with him,” Lamb said.
The judge found there were no conditions of release to mitigate the threat he poses.
“GPS would only prevent contact from one minor child at one location. Electronic monitoring will only keep defendant in one location for specific periods of time and not prevent him from contacting minors or meeting up with them, or having them come to him,” Lamb said.
Moreno-Martinez is scheduled to appear in court again on March 2 for a status of trial date and a hearing on a motion to compel.