Chicago and North Suburbs Plagued with Sex Trafficking, Parental Alienation, Child Rape, and Psychiatric Drugging of Molestation Victims

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Chicago and North Suburbs Plagued with
Sex Trafficking, Parental Alienation, Child Rape, and Psychiatric Drugging of Molestation Victims:
Fifty-Nine People and Places Which Are Threats to Children's Safety

1. Brad W. Andersen, Lake Bluff realtor. His sons’ female friend - who was also the daughter of one of his own friends - performed as a camgirl for him when she was in her early twenties.

2. Ronald Bell, Waukegan-based attorney. Commits parental alienation, a/k/a legal kidnapping from parents not proven unfit to care for children. 

3. Raymond Allen Boldt, Mundelein attorney. Commits parental alienation, a/k/a legal kidnapping from parents not proven unfit to care for children. Defended a statutory rapist; a priest named Jeffrey B. Hannah. Hired by Kash Jackson's ex-wife to extort him for child support money and pay egregious amounts to G.A.L. Sally Lichter in order to speak to them over the phone.

4. Janelle Christensen, Waukegan judge. Commits parental alienation, a/k/a legal kidnapping from parents not proven unfit to care for children.

5. Sam Cunningham, former Mayor of Waukegan. Defended Joe Biden's groping and molesting of children as "part of the job" of being president, in public, while speaking to a protester in downtown Waukegan in 2021.

6. Sheriff Mark Curran, former Sheriff of Lake County, Illinois. Assists in parental alienation, a/k/a legal kidnapping from parents not proven unfit to care for children.

7. Sean Curran, Lincolnshire police officer. In 2009, interrogated then 22-year-old Melissa Calusinski and coerced her into falsely confessing to murdering 1-year-old Benjamin Kingan.

8. David del Re, Waukegan-based attorney. Commits parental alienation, a/k/a legal kidnapping from parents not proven unfit to care for children. One of his victims included a Lake County father named Sam Gorg.

9. Jonathan Dick, Lake Forest confectioner (owner of Sweet’s). Molested, raped, and provided alcohol (and possibly also access to pornography) so the son of his sister; his ten-year-old nephew. The mother of the victim is formerly of Lake Forest, who wrote the book Straying Towards Truth. Jonathan Dick is the husband of Susan Dick, who helped Mr. Dick cover-up his crimes, and blame and gaslight the victim. May or may not be using the alias “Jonathan D. Jonathan”; this might have been a typographical error. Jonathan Dick is almost definitely Jonathan Dick, Jr., the son of Jonathan H. Dick, a man who is probably around age 70, who won squash tournaments at his golf club Onwentsia, and has been a member there since the 1970s, and is currently a member of that club's Board of Senators in good standing. Jonathan Dick, Jr. might be using his father's power and influence - and his own personal wealth, from his ice cream shop as well as his real estate sale and/or development - to purchase attorneys who are willing to defend him for child rape charges. Unclear whether he has any other victims in addition to his nephew; the mother of that victim is worried that Mr. Dick has a lawyer on retainer to defend him for those purposes.

10. Susan Dick, Lake Forest confectioner (owner of Sweet’s). Molested and/or raped the daughters of the mother, formerly of Lake Forest, who wrote the book Straying Towards Truth. Wife of Jonathan Dick, and possibly served as accessory to his crimes after the fact.

11. Michael Feld, Northbrook psychiatrist. Had an affair with a client. Prescribed neurotranquilizing / sedative atypical antipsychotic medications to Joseph W. Kopsick when he attempted to come forward with child molestation allegations against his attorney father Richard S. Kopsick in 2015. Came recommended (to Richard Kopsick) by psychiatrist and youth counselor Sol Rappaport, who works with children in his practice.

12. George Filenko, Lincolnshire police officer. In 2009, interrogated then 22-year-old Melissa Calusinski and coerced her into falsely confessing to murdering 1-year-old Benjamin Kingan.

13. Marc Fisher, Waukegan-based attorney. Commits parental alienation, a/k/a legal kidnapping from parents not proven unfit to care for children.

14. Scott Boen Gibson, Waukegan / Lake Forest attorney. Former partner of child molester Richard S. Kopsick. Gibson pinched Joe Kopsick’s behind, and other children’s behinds, at his pool parties when Kopsick was a child, while yelling “There’s a butt-biter in the pool!”. Former heroin user. Recovering alcoholic.

15. Melodie Gliniewicz, Fox Lake. Widow of Fox Lake police officer Joseph Gliniewicz. Defrauded a children’s charity with her now deceased husband.

16. Kenneth Hasty, Waukegan basketball recruiter. Molested teenage boys, was put on probation, and tried to seduce a 19-year-old boy. His attorney Richard S. Kopsick recommended more probation in 1993 - saying that Hasty had "reformed" his behavior - but Hasty was jailed. Two years later, Richard S. Kopsick molested and raped his first born son, Joseph W. Kopsick.

17. Eric Hill, Zion police officer. Shot 17-year-old Justus Howell to death, in the back, while Howell was fleeing.

18. Laura Horner, Waukegan-based attorney. Commits parental alienation, a/k/a legal kidnapping from parents not proven unfit to care for children. 

19. Adam Hyde, Lincolnshire police officer. In 2009, interrogated then 22-year-old Melissa Calusinski and coerced her into falsely confessing to murdering 1-year-old Benjamin Kingan.

20. Sheriff John Idleburg, current Sheriff of Lake County, Illinois. Assists in parental alienation, a/k/a legal kidnapping from parents not proven unfit to care for children.

21. Howard Kallem, attorney. Wrote a sham 47-page investigation about the sorry, half-hearted attempt, by Lake Forest High School and its attorneys, to investigate why L.F.H.S. and its employees dropped the ball in regard to David Miller's 47-year-long, off-and-on molestation (and possibly statutory rape) of teenage boys at his school. Kallem created this report (one-eighth of which was redacted) in conjunction with attorney Rebecca Leitman Veidlinger.

22. Richard S. Kopsick, Waukegan / Lake Bluff personal injury attorney. Defended child molester Kenneth Hasty in 1993. Molested and raped his oldest son Joey in 1995 and 1996, multiple times. Former friend of attorney Scott Gibson, who pinched Joe Kopsick’s behind and the behinds of other children at his pool parties. Active in the Lake County Democratic Party and the Lake Bluff District 65 school board during the 1990s. President of the Lake County Bar Association for the year of 2004. Defends people charged with statutory rape. Associate of Joseph McKeown, who used to work in his office, along with McKeown's father Dennis (now retired).

23. Sally A. Lichter, Libertyville-based G.A.L. (Guardian Ad Litem) at Sally Family Law. Commits parental alienation, a/k/a legal kidnapping from parents not proven unfit to care for children. Charges parents tens of thousands of dollars to speak to their children. Victims include the father Kash Jackson (born Benjamin Adam Winderweedle).

24. Steve Lunardi, Waukegan-based attorney. Effectively committed defamation against Joseph W. Kopsick in fall 2023; by claiming, to his face - in public - that Richard Kopsick did not molest or rape the younger Mr. Kopsick.. Lunardi was arrested in the late 1980s for possession of crack cocaine.

25. Lisa Malkov, Lake Bluff police officer. Refused to charge Richard S. Kopsick with molesting his son (despite multiple written statements, precise estimation of dates on which the abuse occurred, explanations as to why physical evidence is not available, and a prosecutor’s admission that it sounds to him like Joe Kopsick’s mother and brother believe him about the abuse).

26. Matt deMartini, Antioch attorney. In 2011, prosecuted Melissa Calusinski alongside his associate attorney Steven J. “Steve” Scheller. Framed Calusinski by failing to produce sufficiently light X-ray evidence showing that the baby who died in Calusinski’s care had previously existing head injuries.

27. Steve McCollum, Waukegan-based attorney. Former (and possibly still current) friend of child-raping attorney Richard Kopsick and child-groping attorney Scott Gibson. McCollum defended Diane M. Ross (a teacher and mother) for sending and/or receiving child pornography in 2000.

28. Joseph "Joe" McKeown, Waukegan-based Guardian Ad Litem (taking custody of children for legal purposes). Once used an image of "Herbert the Pervert" (a pedophile character from Family Guy as his Facebook profile picture. Making light of sex crimes against children in this way, is arguably something that a person whose job it is to hold legal custody of children, should not do, as it is insensitive, and reflects a lack of seriousness regarding such crimes.

29. Justice Robert McLaren, Illinois justice. Prevented lawsuit against David Miller from going forward, on grounds that statute of limitations had expired. That statute was replaced by a new law in 2020, which allows victims to pursue charges against their abusers past the age of 38 if they can prove they were intimidated, and until the age of 38 if they cannot.

30. David “Dave” Miller, Lake Bluff / Lake Forest theater director. Exchanged sexually charged text messages with boys around the age of 17 years old, and kissed students. May have also had sexual relationships with teenage boys. Reportedly, information about this was suppressed between 2009 and 2020 because Miller’s victims wanted to retain their privacy.

31. Judge Christopher Morozin, Waukegan-based judge. Commits parental alienation, a/k/a legal kidnapping from parents not proven unfit to care for children.

32. Michael Nerheim, Waukegan former State's Attorney of Lake County. Republican. Defeated by Democrat Eric Rinehart in November 2020. Nerheim's office refused to charge Richard S. Kopsick with child molestation. Nerheim urged support of police after the shooting death of 17-year-old Justus Howell, who was shot by police in the back while fleeing.

33. Victor o’Block, Waukegan prosecutor at the Specialized Victims Unit of the Lake County State’s Attorney’s office. Refused to charge Richard S. Kopsick with multiple counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse or assault against his son Joe Kopsick, despite the existence of medical evidence of injury (on Mr. Kopsick's lower left ribs), and while admitting that it seemed to o'Block that Joe Kopsick's mother and brother believed his claims about his father attacking him with sexual intent.

34. Kathleen o’Hara, Lake Bluff / Lake Forest former teacher and principal. Mayor of Lake Bluff since 2007. Screamed at students (including Joe Kopsick) while disciplining them, during her tenure at Lake Bluff Middle School (possibly contributing to an environment in which children would be unlikely to report abuse). Possibly failed to sufficiently bring Diane M. Ross’s child pornography arrest to the community’s attention.

35. Sol R. Rappaport, Libertyville psychiatrist and youth counselor. Recommended Dr. Michael Feld (who had an affair with a client) to Richard S. Kopsick, to treat his son Joe Kopsick, after he began recovering memories of abuse in 2015, and attempted to come forward about his father molesting him in 1995 and 1996.

36. David del Re, Waukegan attorney. Commits parental alienation, a/k/a legal kidnapping from parents not proven unfit to care for children. Works with psychiatrist and youth counselor Sol R. Rappaport.

37. Diane M. Ross, Lake Bluff / Lake Forest English professor at Lake Forest College. Mother of students who were in Lake Bluff schools in the year 2000, when Ross was arrested for sending and/or requesting child pornography over the internet via a web forum, using the screen name "SnowyViolet". Employed Steve McCollum (friend of child rapist and attorney Richard Kopsick, and child groping attorney Scott Gibson) as her attorney in that case.

38. Judge Al Salvi, Waukegan judge. Commits parental alienation, a/k/a legal kidnapping from parents not proven unfit to care for children.

39. Joseph V. Salvi, Waukegan judge. Commits parental alienation, a/k/a legal kidnapping from parents not proven unfit to care for children. Prevented lawsuit against David Miller from going forward, on grounds that statute of limitations had expired. That statute was replaced by a new law in 2020, which allows victims to pursue charges against their abusers past the age of 38 if they can prove they were intimidated, and until the age of 38 if they cannot.

40. Steven. J. “Steve” Scheller, Waukegan attorney at Scheller & Burke, L.L.C.. Prosecutor, and former defense attorney. In 2011, prosecuted Melissa Calusinski alongside his associate attorney Matt deMartini. Framed Calusinski by failing to produce sufficiently light and legible X-ray evidence showing that the baby who died in Calusinski’s care had previously existing head injuries. Friend of attorney Richard S. Kopsick, who defended a child molester and molested his own son.

41. Gary Schlesinger, Waukegan-based attorney. Commits parental alienation, a/k/a legal kidnapping from parents not proven unfit to care for children.

42. Justice Mary Schostok, Illinois justice. Prevented lawsuit against David Miller from going forward, on grounds that statute of limitations had expired. That statute was replaced by a new law in 2020, which allows victims to pursue charges against their abusers past the age of 38 if they can prove they were intimidated, and until the age of 38 if they cannot.

43. Nicole Slobe, Waukegan-based attorney. Commits parental alienation, a/k/a legal kidnapping from parents not proven unfit to care for children.

44. Rebecca Leitman Veidlinger, Waukegan-based attorney. Wrote a sham 47-page investigation about the sorry, half-hearted attempt, by Lake Forest High School and its attorneys, to investigate why L.F.H.S. and its employees dropped the ball in regard to David Miller's 47-year-long, off-and-on molestation (and possibly statutory rape) of teenage boys at his school. Veidlinger created this report (one-eighth of which was redacted) in conjunction with attorney Howard Kallem.

45. Donna-Jo Vorderstrasse, Waukegan judge. Commits parental alienation, a/k/a legal kidnapping from parents not proven unfit to care for children.

46. "Popz", the adult male proprietor of a hookah bar and music venue called Swing State, which used to exist in Waukegan. Solicited topless photos from at least one underage teenage girl. May have also sexually abused and/or pimped-out at least three underage girls; likely some time in the early 2000s.

47. An adult male in either Lake Bluff or Lake Forest, name unknown, who molested a boy in the 1990s and/or 2000s who attended school in Lake Bluff with Joe Kopsick.

48. A Lake Bluff father, name unknown, who molested and/or raped his daughter, who attended school in Lake Forest with Joe Kopsick.

49. One or more sailors at Great Lakes Naval Base who committed statutory rape against a girl or girls as young as 12 or 13 years old, some time between the years 1999 and 2002. One of these girls was also victimized by the proprietor of a Waukegan hookah bar.

50. The adult male who molested, or attempted to molest, young boys in the men’s showers of the Lake Bluff park district’s public pool in the 1990s. Name unknown.

51. The Office of Child Support Enforcement, of Illinois. Assists in legal child kidnapping (a/k/a parental alienation, through the family courts system; demanding ransom from parents, for Guardians Ad Litem, in exchange for seeing their children and/or talking to them over the phone).

52. The proprietors of, and dance instructors at, Model Act Studios, based in Schaumburg and Lemont. Accused of taking parents money for photographs of children, without offering adequate dance instruction to kids; may be a scam to defraud parents for money and/or obtain photos and/or videos of children for illicit purposes. Works with International Modeling and Talent Association (I.M.T.A.) to put on child fashion shows featuring young girls in immodest two-piece swimsuits. May be working with (I.M.T.A.) to find attractive children who can be lured into the entertainment industry.

53. J.B. Pritzker and family (including former Jeffrey Epstein associate Tom Pritzker, J.B.’s cousin). Governor of Illinois, Democrat. The Pritzker family owns the Hyatt Regency “Chicago” (actually in Schaumburg) and the neighboring Hyatt Place in Schaumburg. Sex trafficking has occurred at the Hyatt Regency, and has likely occurred at Hyatt Place as well.

54. The Village of Schaumburg, which owns the Renaissance Convention Center and Hotel in Schaumburg. The Renaissance Convention Center has hosted conventions of Tremaine dance studios, which teaches young girls (and some boys) sexually charged dance routines.

55. The owner(s) of Private Events by Sam and Harry’s in Schaumburg. Located next to the Renaissance Convention Center. Reputed area where sex trafficking has likely occurred (possibly in connection to sex trafficking occurring at the Renaissance).

56. The City of Chicago, which owns o’Hare International Airport in northwestern Chicago (a known human trafficking and sex trafficking site) and Midway Airport in south Chicago (another possible human trafficking site).

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Written and published on May 25th, 2021

Updated, Edited, and Expanded on November 15th and 18th, 2023.