Crime & Safety

Lemont Man Sentenced to 6 Months in Jail for Molesting 14-Year-Old Girl

Greg A. Voegtlin, 44, was convicted in May of repeatedly sexually abusing a teenager from 2003 to 2007.

A Will County judge sentenced a Lemont man on Thursday to six months in jail and four years of sex offender probation for repeatedly molesting a teenage girl between 2003 and 2007, according to a Sun-Times Media report.

Greg A. Voegtlin, 44, must register for life as a sex offender, and must not have any contact with girls under the age of 18, others than his two daughters, according to the report.

Voegtlin on three counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse.

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Last year, Charles B. Pelkie, spokesman for Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow, said the victim was first abused in May 2003, when she was just 14 years old.

According to the Chicago Sun-Times, the victim told her family about the abuse in 2010, and went to police in 2011. .

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Voegtlin's attorney denied the charges during trial.

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