The proprietor of a suburban Addison ice cream store is dealing with new allegations that he illegally filmed underage ladies within the lavatory of the restaurant.
The go well with was filed in opposition to 58-year-old Steven Weisberg, who’s presently in police custody after he was charged with a number of felonies in connection to an investigation that unfolded on the Taste Frenzy store in Addison earlier this 12 months, in accordance with attorneys.
In response to the lawsuit, a complete of 11 plaintiffs allege the proprietor pressured teen ladies to undress and alter garments within the store’s lavatory whereas he secretly recorded them on video. He additionally allegedly rubbed their backs and touched their buttocks, and requested them to take an “on-line purity check,” in accordance with the go well with.
He allegedly reached out to the women outdoors of labor, and allegedly supplied them marijuana and alcohol. The go well with additionally alleges that he withheld wages or paid workers under the state’s minimal wage.
The regulation agency of Roman and Blandin is representing the plaintiffs within the case.
“There’s little that’s extra healthful than a highschool job scooping ice cream at an area store, however for our eleven teenage shoppers, this deceptively nice part-time job became manipulation, exploitation, disgrace, mistrust, disrespect, and disbelief,” Lawyer Antonio Romanucci mentioned in an announcement.
Weisberg was the topic of one other lawsuit filed earlier in September. The plaintiff in that case alleged that they have been surreptitiously recorded inside his dwelling in Buffalo Grove along with the recording within the lavatory at Taste Frenzy.
The proprietor of a suburban ice cream store accused of filming minors within the lavatory of his enterprise is dealing with a brand new lawsuit stemming from an incident at his dwelling. Regina Waldroup has extra.
The lawsuit additionally alleges Jane Doe was secretly filmed at Weisberg’s dwelling, after he invited her to play pickleball with him one afternoon —an invite he had made repeatedly—after which recommended that she bathe earlier than they headed to work collectively, the sufferer has mentioned.
“Our plaintiff has informed us the entire incident has been indescribable, and he or she’s having a really troublesome time wrapping her head round it,” legal professional Matthew Siporin mentioned in that case. “She seems like she’s in a continuing daze. As she revisits the sequence of occasions, she feels violated and weak. Her capacity to belief others has been shattered.”
Weisberg was charged in August with two counts of kid pornography, a Class X felony, and two counts of unauthorized video recording, in accordance with the DuPage County State’s Lawyer’s Workplace.
Movies obtained by prosecutors filmed by the key cameras Weisberg allegedly put in confirmed an underage woman making an attempt on completely different Taste Frenzy t-shirts, fully exposing her breasts to the digital camera all through the video, authorities mentioned. Police later recognized the person as a 16-year-old ice cream store worker.
Prosecutors alleged that Weisberg allegedly requested the woman to strive on and mannequin completely different T-shirts for the enterprise. In response to authorities, detectives discovered two further movies on his telephone of yet-to-be-identified feminine workers, one in every of whom is a minor, “at numerous phases of undress, exposing their buttocks and intercourse organs.”
After Weisberg’s arrest, 4 extra feminine workers, who’re minors, informed police he allegedly requested them to mannequin t-shirts and informed them to take away their bras for the images in order that there was no bra define within the images, in accordance with officers.
“Mr. Weisberg allegedly falsely created an setting the place youngsters ought to have felt secure and safe,” Addison Chief of Police Roy Selvik mentioned within the information launch. “As an alternative, he betrayed not solely their belief, however the belief of our total group in one of the vital heinous and disturbing methods.”
Taste Frenzy stays closed, and Addison Police say the enterprise license was voluntarily surrendered. Additionally they say they’re nonetheless taking stories on this case, and anybody with info ought to contact them.
