Christopher Chothen, 39, has been required to register as a sex offender since 2002. He has been convicted of failure to register in 2004, 2006, 2013, and 2014; Additionally, Chothen was convicted of impersonating police in 2002; being a sex offender in a school zone in 2006; possessing a methamphetamine precursor in 2009; and intimidation in 2009. On these most recent charges of violating the sex offender registry act and presence in a children’s hospital by a child sex offender, Judge Ankur Srivastava ordered him to pay a $50,000 bail deposit to go home on electronic monitoring.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Should have pretended to be a priest.