Overview
- Tory Bridgeforth, 40, was arrested by Cook County Sheriff's Police on March 4 and charged with criminal sexual assault and solicitation of child sexual abuse material.
- A judge ordered Bridgeforth held in Cook County Jail pending court proceedings on the new case, according to court records.
- Investigators say a Feb. 26 report led them to messages, explicit videos, and payment records involving a teenage girl who also alleged he assaulted her in his car.
- Bridgeforth had been free on a $500,000 bond from a 2023 indictment on 13 child pornography counts, and his scheduled trial on those charges was postponed after the new arrest.
- Bridgeforth is a Chicago resident who previously served in Robbins in 2019 and Dixmoor from 2021 to 2022, and he was fired from the Dixmoor Police Department in 2022.