Man Accused of Luring Girl from Library
and Assaulting Her
A Rolling Meadows, Illinois, resident was arrested July 24 and charged with aggravated sexual abuse after allegedly luring a 13-year-old girl from the local library and assaulting her in a nearby park.
Police said Christopher Mundschenk, 19, used instant messaging from computers in the Rolling Meadows Public Library’s adult section to chat with several girls who were at computers in the children’s section one floor down, according to the July 26 Chicago Tribune.. He later went down to talk to the girls, then messaged one from upstairs and asked her to meet him in the park, which she did.
The girl did not report the incident until about two weeks later, when she saw Mundschenk at the library again and asked a friend to call 911.
Although the library has installed computer filters to block access to online pornography, chat rooms and instant messaging are harder to monitor. “We’re not going to police them by sitting right next to them,” Library Director David Ruff said. “We couldn’t. There aren’t enough staff members. I’m not certain how the library could do anything differently. . . . Children need to know not to go off with strangers.”
Posted August 5, 2002.
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