Man charged with trying to pimp underage girl in Lombard

A Chicago man faces criminal charges after police accused him of trying to prostitute a 16-year-old runaway staying with him in a Lombard hotel.

Robert Hampton, 25, 2666 E. 78th St., is charged with attempted juvenile pimping, aggravated criminal sexual abuse and child pornography.

Authorities said Hampton ran an advertisement last month on a popular Web site, while soliciting customers to have sex with the underage girl for money. The ad listed a location and a price list.

Hampton also is accused of having sex with the girl July 9 and photographing her while she was engaged in a sex act with an adult female who was his girlfriend.

Two other underage runaways, ages 16 and 12, also were involved. Hampton is not accused of having sexual contact with either of them.

Police said the three girls were runaways from a Downers Grove group home.

"She turned herself in," Lombard Deputy Police Chief Dane Cuny said of the victim. "In the course of speaking to her, we learned she had been approached by Hampton and his girlfriend for acts of prostitution."

Police arrested Hampton July 11 at a hotel along 22nd Street in Lombard. He is being held in the DuPage County jail on a $750,000 bond. If he posts the required 10 percent, a judge barred Hampton from having contact with any minor under the age of 18.

A DuPage County grand jury indicted him earlier this week. Hampton is due in court Monday for arraignment.

In a similar case, two Bolingbrook men pleaded innocent last week to juvenile pimping charges after Downers Grove police set up a sting operation after seeing a similar online prostitution ad. In that case, police said they arrested the men after they allegedlt collected about $350 from a 16-year-old girl they had taken to a Downers Grove motel to meet with an undercover officer.