Roselle man accused of pimping while out on bail in sex abuse case
A 24-year-old Roselle man is accused of pimping teenage girls throughout the suburbs while free on bail as he awaited trial for sexually abusing a different teenage girl in McHenry County.
Allen C. Iroegbulem is serving a three-year prison sentence after being convicted of the sex abuse charges in McHenry County and now faces a life sentence if convicted on federal sex trafficking charges.
Prosecutors said Iroegbulem drugged at least three teenage girls and then took money from men who performed sex acts on the girls in Arlington Heights, Schaumburg and other suburbs, as well as Rockford and on at least one occasion in Wisconsin, all while he was out on bail awaiting trial on the sexual abuse charges.
Two of the girls were 15 and one was 16 when Iroegbulem began offering them to men for sex in exchange for cash, according to investigators.
According to court records, investigators have recordings of Iroegbulem talking about his prostitution business with a friend. In the recordings obtained by the FBI, Iroegbulem tells his friend that he trusts only the girls he knows and has under his control.
Iroegbulem has a lengthy arrest record throughout the suburbs for drug and theft charges.
In February 2013, Iroegbulem was charged with criminal sexual abuse after investigations by Crystal Lake and Woodstock police, according to records on the McHenry County court clerk's website.
Woodstock police Chief Robert Lowen said Iroegbulem's $50,000 bail amount was "surprisingly low" for those kinds of allegations.
It's unclear when he posted bail, but on Jan. 20, 2014, Iroegbulem was arrested by Schaumburg police after the hotel staff called police about an unconscious teenage girl found in a room that he was renting. He was apprehended by Schaumburg police when he returned to the hotel room with another teenage girl from DuPage County.
Schaumburg police charged him with contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile after he attempted to have someone call the police claiming to be the DuPage County girl's mother and saying they should release the girl to Iroegbulem, according to court records.
Investigators said the girl's mother came to the station and took her home.
Iroegbulem was released later that day after posting bail.
He was arrested again a few weeks later in early February along with the DuPage County girl. The girl had run away with Iroegbulem the day after he was arrested in Schaumburg. Iroegbulem picked the girl up at her high school and then began driving her to various homes and hotels in the suburbs and Chicago where, she told investigators, she was given drugs and told to perform sex acts for money, court records say.
According to the court records, the girl told investigators she feared for her safety if she didn't do as Iroegbulem told her, and she told investigators he had slapped her multiple times and once held her against her will in his Roselle apartment, "forcing her to sit on the floor in the corner with a blanket over her head" for an entire weekend. She said that when she told Iroegbulem she need to use the restroom, he "provided her with a bucket," according to the records.
The girl's story was corroborated by two other underage girls who accused Iroegbulem of plying them with drugs, forcing them to perform sex acts for money and threatening them with violence, according to court records.
Iroegbulem was sentenced in the McHenry County case in August and has been serving his sentence in downstate Centralia. While he is expected to be paroled on state charges later this month, he is in federal custody awaiting a detention hearing next week where a judge will determine a possible bail amount, authorities said.