Creepy Mall Cop Back in Jail While Judge Decides Sentence For Secretly Recording Teen in Bathroom

JOLIET, IL — A creepy mall cop who secretly recorded a teenage girl while she used the bathroom at her job was put back in jail Wednesday while a judge decides what sort of sentence he deserves.

Enrique Cortina, 28, pleaded guilty back in October but has been free on $2,500 bail since the day after his arrest nearly a full year ago.

Cortina, a Romeoville resident, appeared in court Wednesday and Judge Sarah Jones sent him back to the Will County jail. Jones is not scheduled to actually sentence Cortina until next month.

Cortina had worked as a security guard at the Louis Mall, a source said. The teenage victim of Cortina’s sleazy spying was also employed at the mall and worked at the McDonald’s in the food court, police said.

The then-16-year-old reportedly went to the cops in January 2016 and told them she was sent a video through a Facebook message that showed her using the restroom at work. She also received a link to a porn site showing videos of her and a co-worker using the bathroom, police said.

The teen had left her job at the McDonald’s in September 2014, police said.

It was not clear how police tracked the videos back to Cortina.

In February 2016, before Cortina had been identified as the alleged washroom weirdo, the teen filed a lawsuit against the “John Doe” who had recorded her and shared the videos online.

The teen “discovered multiple videos of herself in the McDonald’s restroom posted to the Internet, specifically <xvideos.com>,” the suit said.

The “recordings captured video of (her) appearing nude below the waist,” the lawsuit said.

One video, entitled “SPY CAM in McDonald’s 1,” is seven minutes long and another, “SPY CAM in McDonald’s 2,” is 39 seconds long, according to the lawsuit.

“Combined, ‘SPY CAM in McDonald’s 1’ and ‘SPY CAM in McDonald’s 2’ have been viewed over 100,000 times,” the lawsuit said.

The former McDonald’s worker now suffers from “mental anguish, emotional distress, humiliation and embarrassment,” the suit said.

The lawsuit was amended following Cortina’s arrest to name his as a defendant. The case remains unresolved.

In July 2015, Cortina was charged with public indecency for standing naked in the bedroom window of his Rebecca Drive home. He “made an appearance in a state of nudity by exposing or exposition of his genitals,” according to the criminal complaint filed against him.

Cortina pleaded guilty in that case and was sentenced to six months of court supervision.

Enrique Cortina | image via Will County Sheriff's Department