Union man gets 23 years for luring girl

CHICAGO – A former Union man was sentenced Thursday to more than 23 years in prison for luring a 13-year-old girl he met on-line to a Carol Stream park for sex and then hitting and leaving her when she changed her mind.

According to authorities, Marcus Tyms, 25, met the victim in 2007 on an online chat site three months before their meeting in Carol Stream. Just days before his arrest, Tyms induced the girl to exchange sexually explicit photos with him, authorities said.

U.S. District Judge Milton Shadur added 10 years to Tyms’ sentence because he already was a registered sex offender at the time of the crime, after a 2005 conviction in Cook County for indecent solicitation for arranging for a 12-year-old girl to commit a sex act.

Tyms had re-registered as a sex offender just hours before his arrest in September 2007 by a Carol Steam police officer.

Shadur also sentenced Tyms to five years of supervised release and fined him $10,000.

Tyms was indicted on charges of producing child pornography, transferring obscene matter to a minor, and enticement. He pleaded guilty in December to the enticement charge.