The vp of an Illinois younger folks’s charity faces a number of little one pornography expenses after being arrested on Wednesday.
The accused, Erich Kroll, 49, is vp of the Naperville-based KidsMatter human providers non-profit group in addition to a senior enterprise banker, the DuPage County Sheriff’s Workplace, based mostly in Wheaton, Illinois, mentioned in a press launch.
Kroll, of the 18W000 block of Holly Drive in unincorporated DuPage County, is being held on a $150,000 bond following a bond listening to Wednesday afternoon.
KidsMatter focuses on preventative methods to make sure that younger folks keep away from harmful habits, based on its web site.
“Our community of companions helps us to attach dad and mom dedicated to offering non-judgmental alternatives to share struggles, present assist, and in the end strengthen the material of our households and group, to the sources they want,” it says on its web site.
“We imagine in constructing resilient children and households who say NO to harmful behaviors and YES to limitless potentialities.”
Authorities have been capable of collect sufficient proof on-line to execute a search warrant at Kroll’s residence earlier than he was arrested.
“Sheriff’s Workplace investigators executed a search warrant at Kroll’s residence on Wednesday following an web investigation into the possession and distribution of kid pornography recordsdata,” the press assertion mentioned.
“A forensic examination [of] Kroll’s digital electronics revealed the presence of kid pornography recordsdata.”
Sheriff James Mendrick mentioned on Wednesday that the police are dedicated to defending youngsters from potential predators.
“I am so grateful that we now have our Digital Forensic Investigation Unit on the market working instances like this and getting these predators off the road.
“Crimes in opposition to youngsters are crimes in opposition to our future and that might be not be tolerated in DuPage County.”
DuPage County State’s Legal professional Robert Berlin mentioned the allegations in opposition to Kroll have been very disturbing. “What I discover significantly troubling about these allegations is the truth that Mr. Kroll at the moment serves as Vice President of the Board for KidsMatter,” he mentioned.
“I want to stress nonetheless, that the allegations in opposition to Mr. Kroll are under no circumstances affiliated with KidsMatter.
“I thank DuPage County Sheriff James Mendrick and his workplace for his or her work not solely on this case, however for his or her ongoing efforts to guard our youngsters from sexual predators.
“I additionally thank Assistant State’s Attorneys Denis Cahill and Helen Kapas for his or her work in getting ready a powerful case in opposition to this defendant,” Berlin added.
The DuPage County Sheriff’s Workplace assertion closed by reminding the general public that the fees weren’t proof of a defendant’s guilt. “A defendant is presumed harmless and is entitled to a good trial through which it’s the authorities’s burden to show his or her guilt past an inexpensive doubt,” it mentioned.
Kroll’s subsequent courtroom date is scheduled for 9 a.m. on June 18.
Newsweek has contacted KidsMatter and the DuPage County Sheriff’s Workplace for remark.
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