Child Porn Defendant In Joliet Regains His Freedom From This Judge In Will County

JOLIET, IL — Although the Will County Jail logs from Friday afternoon still listed 28-year-old Joliet child pornography defendant Robert McNamara as being in custody, his freedom is coming. Court files from Friday indicate Will County's judiciary has ordered electronic monitoring for McNamara, along with 12-hour home confinement with permission to leave for work.

Hours of home confinement will be determined by Will County's pretrial services division, court records indicate.

McNamara is being represented by private counsel, criminal defense attorney Robert Gevirtz of Gevirtz and Born in Northfield. Friday's ruling was issued by Will County Judge Amy Bertani-Tomczak in Courtroom 405.

According to this week's criminal complaint, McNamara is charged with five counts of child pornography. The Illinois State Police handled the investigation and made Thursday's arrest. Jail logs listed McNamara as being from the 6900 block of Sahara Drive in Plainfield while the complaint listed his crimes as occurring in the 2800 block of Joliet's Misty Brook Lane.

Misty Brook Lane is part of the subdivision on Joliet's far east side, off Route 6/Maple Road out toward New Lenox.

"In January and February ... the State Police were notified of child pornography video associated with a Kik account," Will County's prosecutors outlined. "Search warrants were issued to Kik and Comcast. The results of the search warrants connected the IP addresses and email accounts to the defendant's residence."

Prosecutors went on to explain that on March 26, Illinois State Police raided McNamara's Joliet house on Misty Brook Lane, his cell phone was seized and McNamara unlocked the phone for police.

"The defendant admitted there were some videos under a hidden file on his cell phone," the prosecutor's filing pointed out. "The State Police performed a phone extraction on the defendant's phone. The results pulled up multiple videos of child pornography."

The Will County State's Attorney's Office, on Friday, filed a petition to deny pretrial release for McNamara. The complaint indicates that on March 26, McNamara possessed a video file of a child he knew to be under the age of 13 engaged in an act of sexual conduct.

The court files note that McNamara has no prior criminal history.