Crime & Safety

Lemont Man Found Guilty of Molesting 14-Year-Old Girl

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

Will County jurors convicted a Lemont man Thursday of repeatedly molesting a teenage girl between 2003 and 2007, according to a Chicago Sun-Times report.

Greg A. Voegtlin, 44, was convicted on three counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse, according to the report.

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.

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

Aggravated criminal sexual abuse is a Class 2 felony that carries a sentence of three to seven years upon conviction.

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Voegtlin is scheduled to be sentenced July 12. His punishment could range from probation to 21 years in prison, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

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