Streamwood health worker charged with abusing disabled boy

An employee at a Streamwood mental health center was charged with criminal sexual abuse after police said he was caught on camera inappropriately touching a mentally disabled patient.

The victim told a staff member at Streamwood Behavioral Healthcare System that “Jonathan,” later determined to be 38-year-old Jonathan C. Collantes, asked if he had ever had sex and offered him money to have sex with him, according to a Streamwood police report.

A Department of Children and Family Services investigator informed Streamwood police of the matter. A subsequent investigation of surveillance tapes showed Collantes touching the boy on the morning of Dec. 8 in a recreational room with other children present, according to police.

The surveillance video shows Collantes, who lives in Elgin, tell the other children in the room to watch TV before he sits down at a table with the victim, according to police. He then appears to be touching himself before he is “clearly captured” touching the boy, according to the police report.

The Streamwood officer met with the victim, who confirmed that he was touched by “Jonathan,” according to police.

According to the victim, the suspect then told the boy he would give him peanut better and jelly sandwiches if he did not tell anyone.

The boy identified Jonathan Collantes in a photo lineup on Dec. 8. Collantes was arrested at his apartment on the 200 block of DuPage Street in Elgin shortly after.

Collantes was charged with aggravated criminal sexual abuse, a which is punishable by three to seven years in prison after a conviction.

Police said surveillance tapes show Collantes leave the room before the crime took place to look around the corner to see who was in the area.

Collantes was fired from the mental health center, according to police.