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Former Dixmoor cop faces child-pornography charges: sheriff

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(WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- A former Dixmoor police officer is accused of possessing child pornography.

More than 35 sexually explicit videos and images of children as young as 8 years old: That's what the Cook County Sheriff's office says its investigators found on the cell phone of 37-year-old Tory Bridgeforth of Chicago Heights.


The sheriff's office says Bridgeforth was an officer with the Dixmoor Police Department from 2021 to 2022 and with the Robbins Police in 2019.

He is charged with Class 2 felonies related to child pornography.

Last year, a former Dixmoor police commander was convicted of aggravated battery and misconduct and another commander was charged with misconduct.

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