Lawyers For Woman Charged With Teen Sex Romp Waiting on Email Records

Lawyers defending a Joliet woman against charges she set up a sex date with a teenage boy at the west side home she shares with her 77-year-old lover said they are still gathering email records from Google.

Margarita Hernandez, 33, was arrested in October after allegedly orchestrating the sexual liaison with the teen. The youth is a friend of the son of one of Hernandez's cousins, officials said.

Hernandez's 77-year-old live-in boyfriend, veteran weekly newspaperman John Gabriel, was home at the time of the alleged sex date, police said.

Gabriel has stood by Hernandez since her arrest. He claimed she is nothing more than a patsy in a frame-up concocted by the numerous enemies he has made over the years in the cutthroat world of community news.

One of Hernandez's attorneys, Steve Landis, said at an earlier hearing that his client was actually set up by either her cousin or the mother of the boy she allegedly bedded.

Landis said during a brief hearing Friday morning before Judge Edward Burmila that he and co-counsel Dan Locallo have received some records from Google, but are waiting on more.

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