Church Volunteer Sexually Abused 14-year-old Girl

By Liam Ford
Chicago Tribune
March 13, 2015

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-church-volunteer-sex-abuse-charge-20150312-story.html

Vadonis Landfair, 21, was charged with sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl he knows from volunteering at a church she attends. (Cook County Sheriff's Office)

A 21-year-old Austin man sexually abused a 14-year-old girl he knows from acting as a youth volunteer at a church, prosecutors said Thursday.

Vadonis Landfair, of the 100 block of North Parkside Avenue, abused the girl when she and her 17-year-old boyfriend visited his house in January, according to the Cook County state's attorney's office. He was ordered held in lieu of $100,000 bail in a hearing Thursday after being charged with aggravated criminal sexual abuse, according to court and jail records.

The girl and her boyfriend visited Landfair at home one day between Jan. 6 and Jan 16, prosecutors said.

The three watched movies and ate, and at some point, Landfair said something to the boyfriend that the girl couldn’t hear, prosecutors said.

The boyfriend became upset, and told the girl Landfair had said he wanted to perform a sex act on the girl. Landfair then asked the girl if he could have sex with her, and she looked at him and said “I don’t know.”

The girl and her boyfriend went into Landfair’s bedroom, where they had sex, prosecutors said. Soon after, Landfair walked in and started to perform a sex act the girl, who had her eyes closed and covered at first and objected to what he was doing when she saw that it was him, according to prosecutors.

The girl and the boyfriend stayed at Landfair’s home after the abuse, and the girl didn’t mention the incident again that day.

Landfair later sent a Facebook message to the girl, talking about the sex act, prosecutors said.

On Jan. 22, the girl told her aunt about what happened, who told the girl’s mother, prosecutors said. The mother told the girl’s grandmother, who told the church’s pastor.

Landfair was arrested Monday, and in interviews with investigators, admitted in a videotaped confession that he performed the sex act on the girl, knowing she was 14, prosecutors said.

Landfair is due back in court March 30.