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Man gets four years in Batavia exposure case

A 57-year-old Aurora man on Wednesday was sentenced to four years in prison for exposing and fondling himself at a teacher supplies store on Randall Road in Batavia last December and for failing to register with Aurora police as a sex offender.

James Rozema agreed to a sentence of four years in prison in exchange for a guilty plea to one count of public indecency, a Class 4 felony, and one count of failing to register as a sex offender, a Class 2 felony.

A Class 4 felony usually is punishable by probation or between one and three years in prison. However, because Rozema had been convicted of felony public indecency in the past 10 years, and because he had been previously convicted of failing to register as a sex offender, he was eligible for extended-term sentencing, according to the Kane County State’s Attorney’s Office.

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