Dirksen Teacher Sentenced To Prison For Sex Crimes

JOLIET, IL — A now-former fifth grade teacher at Dirksen Junior High School will spend the next several years of his life behind the steel bars at an Illinois Department of Corrections penitentiary for his 2016 sex crimes victimizing a 12-year-old student.

On Thursday, Grundy County radio station WCSJ News reported that Kyle Camp, a Minooka resident, was given a prison sentence of 15 years. Camp received good time credit for spending the past 1,000-plus days in the Grundy County Jail.

WCSJ reported that Camp will be obligated to serve 85 percent of his prison sentence, which means he should be released in about 9-and-a-half years.

Joliet Patch reported back in March 2016 that the fifth-grade social studies teacher on Joliet's west side was jailed for having sex with a 12-year-old student. Camp was 36 at the time that the Minooka Police hauled him away in handcuffs, charging him with the predatory criminal sexual assault of a child.

In addition to teaching social studies at Dirksen Junior High School in Joliet, Kyle Camp also coached basketball and soccer, police have said.