Carpentersville man accused of sexually abusing teen in Algonquin parking lot

A Carpentersville man is accused of befriending a 16-year-old girl on Snapchat and sexually abusing her in the parking lot of an Algonquin business, a McHenry County judge said in denying his pretrial release.

Yan Carlo Moreno-Martinez, 26, was initially charged with aggravated criminal sexual abuse, indecent solicitation of a child and traveling to meet a minor, according to the criminal complaint filed in McHenry County court.

But the defendant was later indicted on a more serious Class X felony charge of child sexual abuse materials, the indictment shows, alleging he solicited someone he should have known to be a minor to appear in a video.

Moreno-Martinez made his initial court appearance earlier this month before Judge Cynthia Lamb, who ordered him held in jail while awaiting trial, according to court records.

In a detention order, Lamb referred to the probable cause statement prosecutors read during his initial appearance that alleges he “sexually abused a 16-year-old minor who he befriended on Snapchat.”

Lamb said Moreno-Martinez learned the girl’s age “because of a public altercation that occurred” between them at a movie theater in which Moreno-Martinez took the girl’s phone, saw she texted another male and “put his hands around her throat.“

According to a petition for a civil stalking/no-contact order filed by the girl’s mother against Moreno-Martinez, the girl asked movie theater employees for help, they called police, and the girl called her mother to pick her up. When police responded, they told Moreno-Martinez “she was only 16 years old,” Lamb said.

According to the petition, “The police mentioned to (the mother) that they gave him a verbal warning to stay away from (her) daughter.”

But Lamb said that although he knew the girl’s real age, he continued to communicate with her.

Additionally, a video from Home Depot in Algonquin shows Moreno-Martinez’s vehicle in the parking lot, where the girl “said that they went” and he sexually abused her, according to authorities.