Crime & Safety

Wheeling Man Sentenced For Sexually Abusing Girls

Carlos Luz Flores was convicted of inappropriately touching a two Wheeling girls in 2008, several media outlets report.

 

A Wheeling man will spend the next seven years in prison for sexually molesting two girls five years ago, the Chicago Tribune reports.

Carlos Luz Flores was charged with criminal sexual assault and aggravated criminal sexual abuse for sexually touching two girls, ages 9 and 11, while they were sleeping, the newspaper reports. The incidents occurred in Wheeling.

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Luz Flores was sentenced to three years in prison for the abuse of the 9-year-old and four years for sexual assault of the 11-year-old. The girls did not report the crime until several years after the abuse occurred, the Daily Herald reports.


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