Court records show that a 24-year-old guy from Moline was given a sentence for going to a motel to meet a child.
Police say five men planned to meet at a Moline hotel to have sexual contact with someone they thought was a kid without permission. Rajeshwar Akku was one of those men, according to court records.
He waived a jury hearing and pleaded guilty to an amended charge of solicitation, a misdemeanor, on Oct. 9 in Rock Island County Court, according to court records. Another charge was dropped.
He got 24 months of court supervision as his term, and the time he already spent in jail was added to it. A planned bench hearing was thrown out.
Official records from the police show that he was one of five men who went to the motel in April “with the intent to commit the offense of aggravated criminal sexual abuse.”
ISP Operation on Human Trafficking
An ISP news statement says that the arrests were made during a two-day operation in the Moline area to stop human trafficking. The ISP’s Division of Criminal Investigation Trafficking Enforcement Bureau handled the case.
The operation’s main goal was to find people who wanted to do sex acts for money, the report says.
ISP took many steps to stop human trafficking in Illinois, and this operation was one of them. The Quad Cities MEG, the Moline Police, the Joliet Metro Area Narcotics, the Blackhawk Area Task Force, and the North Central Narcotics Task Force all took part in the operation with ISP. The Rock Island County State’s Attorney’s Office also helped with the operation, the news release said.
Adam Curry from Sherrard, Timothy Danielson from Geneseo, Andy Hershberger from Roseville, and Santeeno Nickerson from Moline are the other four men who are set to appear in Rock Island County Court. Our Quad Cities News will keep an eye on these stories.
What does “human trafficking” mean?
The news release says that human trafficking is when someone is forced to do sex acts, work, or provide services for money, either by force, fraud, or pressure. With its ongoing statewide human trafficking enforcement actions, ISP continues to use a variety of methods to protect the weakest people.
Human slavery can be hard to spot at first. Click here to find out more. If you think someone is being trafficked, call or text the National Human Trafficking Hotline at 1-888-373-7888.
