Jan. 31--A convicted Roscoe Village sex offender faces charges of entering a school zone and indecent exposure after prosecutors say he walked into a West Side high school wearing only his socks.
Joseph Marchetti, a 39-year-old independent massage therapist, on Thursday afternoon walked into the foyer of Crane Medical Preparatory High School, 2245 W. Jackson Blvd., naked, wearing only his socks, prosecutors said. Multiple parents and students were present inside the school, and Chicago Public Schools surveillance video captured the incident.
Marchetti, of the 2300 block of West Belmont Avenue, was arrested at the scene. He is a registered sex offender and was convicted of aggravated criminal sexual abuse in Champaign County in 2005, prosecutors said.
In Cook County bond court on Saturday, Marchetti was ordered held in lieu of $100,000 bond.
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