3/27/12 – Just a few weeks after entering into a plea agreement for forcibly molesting several young girls, a Fox Lake man has been arrested again for being in the company of underage girls. On March 6, Derick Van Beek pleaded “no contest” to two counts of Sexual Assault of a Child Under the Age of 16 and had four similar felonies dismissed but read into the record. The offenses are said to have occurred in the spring and summer of 2010 and involved four different girls who were between the ages of 13 and 15-years-old. In one case, the victim says she tried to push Van Beek off of her. In another incident, the criminal complaint states that the victim resisted but Van Beek pushed her down, held her with his hands so that she could not get up and forced himself on her. The 22-year-old was also said to be controlling, forcing the girls to delete all male contacts from their cell phones and delete their social networking profiles. A pre-sentencing investigation was ordered and Van Beek has a sentencing hearing scheduled on April 30. He faces a maximum 80 year prison sentence. Van Beek was out on a $5000 cash bond awaiting sentencing when he was pulled over Sunday by a Dodge County Sheriffs Deputy on routine patrol. As a condition of bond, Van Beek is prohibited from having contact with females under the
age of 18. Authorities say he was in the company of two girls, ages 13 and 14. The girls were allegedly friends of his adult male passenger who reportedly did not have a driver’s license and Van Beek was just doing them a favor by driving them to a friend’s house. Dodge County Sheriff Todd Nehls issued a statement saying Van Beek has apparently not learned a thing and he (quote) “hopes the courts will require forfeiture of his cash bond and remember this at his upcoming sentencing.” Van Beek is now charged with four felony counts of Bail Jumping
