Joliet Reporter’s Fed Child Porn Case: Court Supervision

By Joseph Hosey

The 77-year-old boyfriend of a 33-year-old woman charged with setting up and indulging in a sex date with a 15-year-old boy caught a federal child pornography case last week.

John Gabriel, the live-in lover of Margarita Hernandez, was taken into custody at the couple's Joliet home.

Hernandez was free on bond at the time of Gabriel's arrest.

Here's what else was going on in court last week:

• Homeless man Michael Eberle's supposed history of psychiatric trouble and chronic drug abuse wasn't enough to get him a hearing to see if he's psychologically unfit to stand trial for murder.
• Robert Gold-Smith, the Frankfort lawyer charged with trying to hire someone to kill his estranged wife, wants the county to foot the bill for a psychological evaluation.
• Frankfort pediatrician Kishor Jain's sex case was pushed back to October.
• A Will County judge cleared the way for prosecutors to play a 911 recording of a frantic mother accusing her boyfriend, Santos Loza, of killing her baby.
• Orland Park resident Kevin Skaritka was sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty to sending sexual chats and naked images of himself to an undercover police officer posing as a teenage girl.
• The lawyer for Kenneth Martin, a former Southwest Chicago Christian High School music teacher charged with sexually abusing students, said his client may plead guilty next month.
• Ralph Grajek, an Orland Park man charged with breaking down the door of a former girlfriend's home and brutally attacking her, pleaded guilty and took a five-year prison sentence.
  
• Donovan Campbell, a Mokena man charged with attacking a restaurant manager after he was upset by his supposedly steep bill, was set to stand trial Tuesday but prosecutors weren't ready for him.
• A Shorewood spa laser treatment left a woman with "severe burns" that disfigured her face, according to a lawsuit filed in Will County court.
• Nearly two years after a 12-year-old foster child allegedly torched at least five cars and went on a destructive rampage, one Plainfield couple wants the Illinois Department of Children & Family Services to pay.
• An Aurora man was sentenced to nine months in federal prison for sexually groping a Chicago area woman during a flight, the U.S. Attorney's office said.
• Josh Fazio, a former detective with with the Will County Sheriff's Department, filed a lawsuit that said he was forced out of his job after helping top deputy Ken Kasupas spy on his wife and agreeing to mail a pornographic DVD to a lieutenant.
• A Will County judge refused to allow Adam Landerman—one of the four alleged Nightmare on Hickory Street killers—out of jail for his grandfather's wake.
• Detectives should have cut short their questioning of Rodney Julun, a Chicago man charged with a New Lenox Township murder, his attorneys said during a hearing in Will County court.