Posted by ! on April 12, 2010 at 16:41:03:
From the Trib:
'Radio Boy' disc jockey gets 6 months for soliciting teen
April 9, 2010 4:42 PM
A former part-time radio disc jockey was sentenced today to six months in jail for soliciting a 13-year-old Carol Stream boy.
Michael Wawrzyniak, 25, who went by the name "Radio Boy" at 103.5 KISS-FM, also was placed on probation for 30 months. He has to register as a child sex offender for 10 years.
He pleaded guilty last August to indecent solicitation of a child.
"You don't appreciate the damage you did," said DuPage County Judge Blanche Hill Fawell "You have minimized the damage."
The radio station earlier said he was fired the day after his arrest in January 2008.
Assistant DuPage State's Attorney Enza LaMonica said Wawrzyniak, of the 1700 block of South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, communicated with the boy over the MySpace social networking Web site. Police were called after his parents discovered their son had intimate contact with Wawrzyniak.
An undercover police officer posed as the boy over the Internet and arranged a meeting, at which Wawrzyniak was arrested.
LaMonica asked for a 4 1/2 year prison term, out of a maximum of five he could have received.
"He was out there seeking children to abuse," LaMonica said. "This victim was not even close to the legal age."
Wawrzyniak apologized to Fawell, acknowledging that he lost "my dream job" and that he didn't know "why I took that turn in the road."
Fawell criticized Wawrzyniak for apologizing, "but never mentioning the victim, not once. This is about an act you committed, not about you."
Defense attorney Sam Amirante said "both the defendant and the victim are victims of this darn computer world. Computers are a very serious problem.
"Wawrzyniak has another charge pending in Cook County of possession of child pornography. Before the arrest, Wawrzyniak was a weekend disc jockey and did production work at KISS-FM.
-- Art Barnum