Plainfield Man Kills Himself Before Teen Sex Solicitation Sentencing

A Plainfield man who was to plead guilty today to for sex has committed suicide.

According to a report published in the Chicago Tribune, the attorney for John Martynus told the judge that his client would not be attending the hearing. Donald DeWilkins said he had been informed of the death by Martynus' father, the story said.

Martynus, 40, of Scartlett Oak Drive, a Will County youth mental health advisor and a high school sports coach/referee, was arrested in December 2010 by the Crete Police Department and charged with indecent solicitation of a minor and traveling to meet a minor.

Police said Martynus was in Beecher to referee a game and had contacted someone he thought to be a 13-year-old girl to meet him at a Crete fast-food restaurant to arrange a sexual encounter. The and he was arrested at the restaurant.

Because he had used his cell phone to text the girl, it was confiscated, as was his car, police said. He reportedly confessed that had contacted the teen for the purpose of having sex with her, police said.

According to an account in the Chicago Sun-Times, Martynus had had sexually explicit conversations online with "tammygirl2014," and at one point discussed the contact's age and said the "danger element makes it more exciting."

At the time of his death, Martynus was working as a delivery driver. He was facing a maximum of five year in prison, but could have also been sentenced to probation.