ILLINOIS
Kenosha News
BY JANINE ANDERSON
janderson@kenoshanews.com
WAUKEGAN, ILL. — Attorneys for a Kenosha County monk arrested for trying to get underage girls into his car have asked permission for him to live with his father in a Lansing, Ill., retirement community while the case proceeds.
Thomas Chmura, 57, was arrested and charged in Illinois Circuit Court after police say he tried to lure four girls into his car in late April.
He has been charged with four counts of kidnapping, defined in the statutes as luring children under the age of 17 into his car for an unlawful purpose. The girls — between the ages of 11 and 14 — did not get into his car.
Originally released on bond, Chmura went home to St. Benedict’s Abbey in Benet Lake, but Lake County officials revoked his bond after they learned there is a treatment program for children on the grounds. He has been in the Lake County Jail since then, under a $150,000 bond.
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