Carpentersville man accused of sexually abusing teen in Algonquin parking lot – Shaw Local

A Carpentersville man is accused of befriending a 16-year-old girl on Snapchat, sexually abusing her in the parking lot of an Algonquin business and then telling her, “You earned yourself some food,” a McHenry County judge said in denying his pretrial release. Yan Carlo Moreno-Martinez, 26, was initially charged with aggravated criminal sexual abuse, indecent solicitation of a child and traveling to meet a minor, according to the criminal complaint filed in McHenry County court. But the defendant was later indicted on a more serious Class X felony charge of child sexual abuse materials, the indictment shows, alleging he solicited someone he should have known to be a minor “to appear in a video … involving the lewd exhibition of the unclothed or transparently clothes buttocks.” Moreno-Martinez made his initial court appearance earlier this month before Judge Cynthia Lamb, who detained him in county jail pretrial, according to court records. In a detention order, Lamb referred to the probable cause statement prosecutors read during his initial appearance that alleges he “sexually abused a 16-year-old minor who he befriended on Snapchat.” Lamb said Moreno-Martinez learned the girl’s age “because of a public altercation that occurred” between them at a movie theater
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