Politics & Government
Former Lake Forest City Leader Admits to Stockpiling Child Porn
A plea deal reached Friday gives a former Lake Forest commissioner probation for possessing 160 videos featuring child pornography.
A former Lake Forest planning commissioner pleaded guilty today to possession of child pornography and was sentenced to 118 days of community service instead of jails.
Jerry J. Zechmeister, 62, of Lake Forest, also pleaded guilty to the sale or distribution of obscene matter.
Zechmeister was placed on three years of formal probation.
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Investigators seized three computers and two external hard drives from his home in October 2013.
When Zechmeister was charged last June, prosecutors said a search of the computers showed about 160 child pornography videos. Investigators suspected the videos were collected over a seven-year period.
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