Elgin is located in both Kane County and Cook County. Depending on where you live, your court case may be in either the jurisdiction for the Kane County State's Attorney's Office or the Cook County State's Attorney's Office. Below is information for both agencies.
The Elgin Police Department partners with both the Kane County and Cook County Child Advocacy Centers. Child Advocacy Centers, often referred to as a CAC, provide victim-sensitive, forensic interviews by training specialists for child victims. They also provide victim advocacy services and can provide valuable resources to children and families.
The Kane County Child Advocacy Center, located at 427 Campbell Street in Geneva, provides forensic interviews, victim advocacy services, and conducts criminal investigations. The Kane County State's Attorney's Office has dedicated state's attorneys assigned to the CAC who charge and prosecute criminal offenses against child victims.
The Cook County Child Advocacy Center, located at 640 Illinois Blvd in Hoffman Estates, provides forensic interviews & victim advocacy services only for child victims. The criminal investigation is conducted by the Elgin Police Department Major Investigations Division.
In a digital age, computer crimes can be complicated. Below is a list of common crimes which Elgin Police Department investigates. If you have questions about your specific incident, please ask to speak with the officer or detective involved in your investigation.
Below are a list of terms and their definitions from the Illinois Compiled Statutes as related to Internet crimes involving child victims. Some definitions are summarized for the general public.
Child Pornography
Also called Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM), child pornography includes any visual depiction of a person under the age of 18-years-old or with a severe or profound intellectual disability engaged in any act of sexual penetration, sexual conduct, or lewd exhibition of the unclothed or transparently clothed genitals, pubic area, buttocks, or, if such person is female, a fully or partially developed breast of the child or other person.
Sexual Penetration
Sexual penetration means any contact, however slight, between the sex organ or anus of one person and an object or the sex organ, mouth, or anus of another person, or any intrusion, however slight, of any part of the body of one person or of any animal or object into the sex organ or anus of another person, including, but not limited to, cunnilingus, fellatio, or anal penetration.
Sexual Conduct
Sexual conduct means any knowing touching or fondling by the victim or the accused, either directly or through clothing, of the sex organs, anus, or breast of the victim or the accused, or any part of the body of a child under 13 years of age, or any transfer or transmission of semen by the accused upon any part of the clothed or unclothed body of the victim, for the purpose of sexual gratification or arousal of the victim or the accused.
Solicit
Solicit means to command, authorize, urge, incite, request, or advise another to perform an act by any means including, but not limited to, in person, over the phone, in writing, by computer, or by advertisement of any kind.
Sexual Act
Sexual act means masturbation, sexual conduct, or sexual penetration.
Virtual Presence
Virtual presence means an environment that is created with software and presented to the user and or receiver via the Internet, in such a way that the user appears in front of the receiver on the computer monitor or screen or hand-held portable electronic device, usually through a web camming program. Virtual presence includes primarily experiencing through sight or sound, or both, a video image that can be explored interactively at a personal computer or hand-held communication device, or both.