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Hot tub trial unleashes a media flood
SKINNY DIPPING IN LOCKPORT
September 28, 2006
By STEWART WARREN STAFF WRITER
Her neighbor seemed to be having sex in the backyard hot tub next door, Nash testified Wednesday.
Standing near the curb outside her Lockport home on East Tree Line Drive, Nash said she could see Cook County Police Officer Kelly Mrozek and a man in the water. Both were naked, she testified.
Nash knew her 14-year-old son was home, and she was afraid that he might see something, she said. She went inside and found the boy. He'd seen everything. "I asked my son to stop watching. I said, 'Don't look out the window,'" Nash testified.
Now very upset, Nash telephoned a neighbor. Together they went outside to take another look. Then they called the police.
"I asked them if it was legal to be naked and having sex in the hot tub in the middle of the day," Nash said. When Lockport Police Officer Dave Cullen arrived, he spoke to Mrozek, 38, who lives nearby on Tree Line Drive, and Mark T. Sumner, 22, of Orland Park. But he didn't arrest them.
That appalled Nash. She eventually complained to a Chicago newspaper columnist who then wrote about the incident. On March 6, Mrozek and Sumner were charged with public indecency, a misdemeanor crime. Their trial began Wednesday afternoon.
Although a death penalty case involving a quadruple homicide was being held on another floor, Will County Judge Marilee Viola's courtroom was packed with more than a half-dozen Chicago-area print and television reporters. Cameramen and photographers stood outside the building, waiting for Mrozek and the others to leave.
While being questioned Wednesday by Martin Dolan, the lawyer representing Mrozek and Sumner, Nash said she didn't tell the couple to stop what they were doing that November afternoon. Dolan also referred to the possibility of a feud between Mrozek and Nash. In the past, Mrozek had called Lockport police to complain about the way cars were parked near the Nash family's home, Dolan said.
"I didn't know who was calling the police," Nash said.
The trial will continue today at 1:30 p.m.
Reporter Stewart Warren can be reached at (815) 729-6068 or via e-mail at [email protected].
Hot tub trial unleashes a media flood
SKINNY DIPPING IN LOCKPORT
September 28, 2006
By STEWART WARREN STAFF WRITER
Her neighbor seemed to be having sex in the backyard hot tub next door, Nash testified Wednesday.
Standing near the curb outside her Lockport home on East Tree Line Drive, Nash said she could see Cook County Police Officer Kelly Mrozek and a man in the water. Both were naked, she testified.
Nash knew her 14-year-old son was home, and she was afraid that he might see something, she said. She went inside and found the boy. He'd seen everything. "I asked my son to stop watching. I said, 'Don't look out the window,'" Nash testified.
Now very upset, Nash telephoned a neighbor. Together they went outside to take another look. Then they called the police.
"I asked them if it was legal to be naked and having sex in the hot tub in the middle of the day," Nash said. When Lockport Police Officer Dave Cullen arrived, he spoke to Mrozek, 38, who lives nearby on Tree Line Drive, and Mark T. Sumner, 22, of Orland Park. But he didn't arrest them.
That appalled Nash. She eventually complained to a Chicago newspaper columnist who then wrote about the incident. On March 6, Mrozek and Sumner were charged with public indecency, a misdemeanor crime. Their trial began Wednesday afternoon.
Although a death penalty case involving a quadruple homicide was being held on another floor, Will County Judge Marilee Viola's courtroom was packed with more than a half-dozen Chicago-area print and television reporters. Cameramen and photographers stood outside the building, waiting for Mrozek and the others to leave.
While being questioned Wednesday by Martin Dolan, the lawyer representing Mrozek and Sumner, Nash said she didn't tell the couple to stop what they were doing that November afternoon. Dolan also referred to the possibility of a feud between Mrozek and Nash. In the past, Mrozek had called Lockport police to complain about the way cars were parked near the Nash family's home, Dolan said.
"I didn't know who was calling the police," Nash said.
The trial will continue today at 1:30 p.m.
Reporter Stewart Warren can be reached at (815) 729-6068 or via e-mail at [email protected].
