By Steve Schmadeke and Dan Hinkel
February 12, 2014
Kelvin A. Perry
(Photo courtesy Schaumburg Police Department)
A Waukegan man has been charged with having sex with a foster child he met through his job at a Lake County residential facility for children, authorities said.
Kelvin Perry, 51, met the 16-year-old girl at a residential program in North Chicago and they kept in touch after she was placed in a foster home, prosecutors said. He was arrested early Monday at home based on allegations he had sex with the girl, who is a ward of the state, in her foster home and in a car outside Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg, authorities said.
On Wednesday, Cook County Judge Donald Panarese Jr. set Perry’s bond at $250,000 on charges of aggravated criminal sexual abuse and criminal sexual assault.
Perry had worked as a program manager at a North Chicago facility for adolescents run by the Allendale Association, a Lake Villa-based nonprofit that operates several local residential programs for children, said Mary Shahbazian, the group’s president and CEO. The girl’s foster home is also connected with Allendale, Shahbazian said.
The organization, which is funded in part by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services and the federal government, is cooperating with police, she said. Perry has been placed on unpaid leave, Shahbazian said.
DCFS officials are investigating, said spokeswoman Veronica Resa.