Prosecutor Requests DNA Swab and Medical Records for Paroled Fondler

A Cook County prosecutor filed motions for a DNA swab and to secure medical records for a 32-year-old Oak Lawn man accused of committing a lewd act near a children’s center last week.

Daniel Vorberg appeared before Cook County Judge Peter Felice Tuesday morning wearing a black-and-white striped jail uniform, his first court appearance at Bridgeview since his arrest in in Oak Lawn on June 18.

Vorberg is charged with public indecency and violating parole, both felonies. He is currently being held in protective custody in Cook County Jail on a no-bond warrant for violating parole and in lieu of $150,000 bail on the public indecency charge.

Vorberg was arrested last week while out on a parole for a similar charge when he was caught pleasuring himself near a Mt. Greenwood school in April 2013.

On the most recent charge, Oak Lawn police had Vorberg under surveillance when they noticed him parked behind a children’s center and plastic surgeon’s office last Thursday. Police said that Vorberg was masturbating in his car while it was parked facing the nursery school’s playground area when children and adults were outside.

Assistant state’s attorney Tom Simpson, who successfully prosecuted Vorberg last year on the Mt. Greenwood charge, told Judge Felice that a swab test was needed because Vorberg reportedly left DNA evidence behind in the car.

Simpson also filed a court order to get Vorberg’s medical records from the plastic surgeon’s office, after Vorberg allegedly told Oak Lawn police that he was a patient there.

A loophole in Illinois statutes does not require Vorberg to register as a sex offender or as a child sex offender with the state, Simpson told the judge.

“They have their work to do downstate,” Simpson said, referring to the Illinois General Assembly.

Simpson further explained how Vorberg violated electronic monitoring while staying at a halfway house after the 2013 incident, and was sent back to jail.

Explaining that Vorberg lived with his family in Oak Lawn directly adjacent to a public playground, Judge Felice added conditions should Vorberg bond out.

“I want him to wear a GPS,” the judge said. “I’m not going to prevent you from living in your home but if you step outside I’m going to revoke your bond. Do you understand?”

“Yes sir,” Vorberg said.

Vorberg also had another hearing scheduled on Tuesday to revoke the no bond warrant on his parole violation but it was postponed since he reportedly is not seeking to put up $15,000 to bond out on the public indecency charge.

The Oak Lawn man is due back in court on July 16 for a return of indictment from a grand jury.

Attending Tuesday’s hearing were Chicago Ald. Matt O’Shea (19th) and Oak Lawn Mayor Sandra Bury. State Rep. Kelly Burke also sent her chief of staff.

“The judge put restrictions on him as far as he could go,” O’Shea said.

If convicted of the most recent charge, Simpson said that Vorberg faces a six-year prison sentence.