Cops: Cicero youth minister sexually assaulted 6 minors

ILLINOIS
Chicago Tribune

By Rosemary Regina Sobol
Tribune reporter
April 9, 2014

A youth minister has been charged with sexually assaulting six minors at his Cicero church and at two camps, and police say they believe there may be more victims.

Juan David Ferreras, 43, worked at Sonido De Alabanza Church as a youth minister, photographer and teacher when he had sexual contact with at least six minors ranging in age from 9 to 17, according to town spokesman Ray Hanania.

The attacks occurred in his apartment, in the church at 5510 W. 25th St. in Cicero and at two camps where he ran youth retreats, one of them in Tsikilwa and the other in Ingleside, Hanania said.

Ferreras, of the 5700 block of West 35th Street in Cicero, is charged with aggravated criminal sexual abuse, criminal sexual assault, sexual exploitation of a child, indecent solicitation of a child, distribution of harmful material and battery. He is scheduled to appear in bond court today.

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