Marengo man who previously impregnated teenager gets probation for communicating with different underage girl

Sentence was result of plea deal, to serve two years probation

A 27-year-old man previously imprisoned for impregnating a teenage girl was sentenced to probation Friday after police say he had contact with a separate underage girl.

Austin J. Vesely accepted an offer Friday from the McHenry County State’s Attorney’s Office and pleaded guilty to a single count of violating an order of protection. In exchange for his guilty plea, Vesely was ordered to serve two years of probation and will receive credit for 180 days of jail time already served, court records show.

Vesely, of the 700 block of Woodland Lane, Marengo, has been a registered sex offender since 2015.

Now-retired McHenry County Judge Sharon Prather sentenced Vesely on Jan. 26, 2015, to two years of probation on a charge of aggravated sexual abuse tied to allegations that he impregnated a 15-year-old girl. Part of Vesely’s sentence barred him from having contact with the victim.

Weeks later, however, Vesely attempted to make contact with the girl while she was at Rockford Memorial Hospital, prosecutors said at the time. Vesely was taken back into custody and re-sentenced to three years in prison.

Vesely was again charged in December 2019, with violating an order of protection and being a child sex offender in contact with a minor via the internet. The latter charge was dismissed as a condition of Vesely’s plea deal. Both charges were felonies punishable by one to three years in prison.

A family member who filed a 2018 order of protection against Vesely alleged the man had been in communication with the woman’s teenage relative and lied about his age, claiming to be a teenager himself.