Tattoo Face Kiddie Porn Guy Talked In Chat Room About Fondness For 'Pre-Teen Hardcore': Prosecutor

Before his arrest, the tattoo-faced Crest Hill man jailed along with his brother last month on child pornography charges took to an online chat room to talk about his predilection for “pre-teen hardcore,” a prosecutor said.

Andrew Castro, 27, and his brother Levi Castro, 29, remain in custody at the Will County jail. Their bond was set at $2 million apiece.

During the Castro brother’s bond hearing, an investigator told how they “discussed possibly kidnapping a child, a baby, sexually assaulting the baby and then killing, or disposing of the baby, and if the mother of the child got in the way, killing the mother,” an official said.

Less than two months before the brothers were arrested, a risk manager from an online video game website alerted police to “disturbing messages” he found in a chat room. The messages were sent under the name Andrew JP Castro of Theodore Street in Crest Hill, according to a court filing.

The “messages contained statements about having contact of a sexual nature with young girls,” the filing said.

An investigator also discovered “Andrew Castro posted in an online chat toom how he liked pre-teen hardcore,” according to a court filing.

A month and a half after the risk manager reached out to police, investigators obtained a search warrant for the home where the Castros lived with their parents, a prosecutor said. Investigators knew the Castros’ father worked each morning at a Joliet bar, found him there and showed him the search warrant, the filing said. They then went with the father to the house on Theodore.

When police went inside the house, “Andrew Castro, as well as Levi Castro, were asleep upstairs in their room,” the filing said. After waking them up, investigators questioned the brothers and they “acknowledged involvement in child pornography viewing on computers.”

The police seized three computers, two monitors, a flat screen television, a Wii video game system, a Wii U console, a PlayStation PS4, an Xbox, and a cell phone. The state’s attorney’s office has taken steps to have the property sold at auction or turned over to a law enforcement agency.

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