{"id":248367,"date":"2010-01-29T19:09:10","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T00:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/?p=14910"},"modified":"2010-01-29T19:09:10","modified_gmt":"2010-01-30T00:09:10","slug":"grayslake-man-sentenced-to-15-years-in-prison-for-molesting-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/248367","title":{"rendered":"Grayslake man sentenced to 15 years in prison for molesting girl"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"John Pistilli was sentenced to 15 years in prison Friday for molesting a young Highland Park girl inside a Gurnee store.<\/p>\n

Associate Judge Daniel Shanes told Pistilli that after he completes the prison sentence, he will have to register as a sex offender and will be on parole for the remainder of his life.<\/p>\n

The former Grayslake man pleaded guilty Dec. 4 in an agreement that assured him of a prison sentence of at least six, but no more than 18 years. <\/span><\/p>\n

Pistilli, 54, was inside the Community Thrift Store, 3440 Grand Ave., on Aug. 21, 2008 when he encountered two girls, ages 5 and 7.<\/p>\n

He approached the girls and put his hand inside the younger one’s pants and then quickly left the store.<\/p>\n

Police were called but were unable to locate Pistilli until a store employee recognized him when he returned about a week later.<\/p>\n

The girl was shown a picture of Pistilli and identified him as the man who had attacked her.<\/p>\n

Police said Pistilli confessed to the crime during an interview.<\/p>\n

He was charged with predatory criminal sexual assault of a child and criminal sexual abuse, although the sexual abuse charge was dropped in exchange for his guilty plea to the more serious charge.<\/p>\n

Defense attorney James Schwarzbach said Pistilli served a probationary term in Florida after a 1994 conviction for child molesting there.<\/p>\n

Without the agreement that led to his plea, Pistilli would have faced a maximum of 30 years in prison.<\/p>\n

Read the original article on DailyHerald.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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John Pistilli was sentenced to 15 years in prison Friday for molesting a young Highland Park girl inside a Gurnee store. Associate Judge Daniel Shanes told Pistilli that after he completes the prison sentence, he will have to register as a sex offender and will be on parole for the remainder of his life. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}