Molester sentenced to 15 years for assault, abuse of 2 Carpentersville children

A 24-year-old Chicago man was sentenced to 15 years in prison Thursday after pleading guilty to sexually abusing and assaulting two Carpentersville children he knew at their home from September 2012 through May 2017.

Esequiel Gonzalez Banuelos, of the 400 block of West 73rd Street, pleaded guilty to one count each of predatory criminal sexual assault of a child younger than 13 and aggravated criminal sexual abuse, both felonies, and was sentenced by Kane County Judge David Kliment.

In exchange for the guilty pleas, prosecutors dismissed another count of predatory criminal sexual assault and four other counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse, according to court records.

If convicted of all the charges, Gonzalez Banuelos faced a punishment ranging from 27 to 95 years in prison.

According to prosecutors, Gonzalez Banuelos sexually assaulted and abused the children at the their home in Carpentersville for more than four years. One of the children told her mother about the crimes and she called police, prosecutors said.

Gonzalez Banuelos was arrested in November 2017 and had been held at the Kane County jail on $750,000 bail.

He gets credit for 411 days served at the jail and must register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.

Gonzalez Banuelos must serve 85 percent of the 10-year sentence for predatory criminal sexual assault of a child but can have his 5-year term for aggravated criminal sexual abuse cut in half for good behavior.