ILLINOIS
Chicago Tribune
By George Houde and Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune
May 15, 2013
A volunteer at Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington has been charged with sexually abusing a boy in a special needs class, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Robert Sobczak, 19, of Hoffman Estates, was charged with aggravated criminal sexual abuse on allegations he touched the boy inappropriately, according to the felony criminal complaint.
Sobczak was volunteering in the church’s Special Friends program on Feb. 17 when he allegedly led the boy to an isolated area at the large evangelical church and fondled him, said Tandra Simonton, a spokeswoman for the Cook County state’s attorney’s office.
Sobczak has denied the allegations, church officials said. He was arrested Friday and released Saturday on $10,000 cash bond.
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