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Sex offender accused of recording child in Wrigley bathroom

A Villa Park sex offender was charged with videotaping a child in a Wrigley Field bathroom over the weekend, Chicago police said Monday.

Nicholas J. Gregor, of the 300 block of North Ardmore, was charged with three felony counts - two counts of unauthorized videotaping and one count videotaping in a public place/sex offense - after the incident that occurred on Saturday, police said.

Gregor is expected in bond court Tuesday.

Prosecutors in 2011 called him "every parent's worst nightmare" after laying out evidence that he held a small camera under his arm while using side-by-side urinals at Norris Recreation Center in St. Charles during a swim meet in 2010.

A subsequent investigation turned up more than 100 items of child pornography on his computer, as well as photo and video from 2007 from a now-closed water park in Lombard and images of children from his neighborhood in Lombard, where he lived at the time.

Gregor faced up to five years in prison and pleaded guilty to unlawful video recording of a minor and child pornography possession.

At the time, Judge George Bakalis said that psychological treatment rather than prison was more likely to rehabilitate Gregor, who at that time had no prior criminal history. He was sentenced to 30 months of sex offender probation and 180 days in the county jail.

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