CHICAGO -- Two women recently told their stories of sexual abuse by a man who served as their youth pastor years ago – and now they say the same man was recently spotted at a newly-opened art studio for children in Lincoln Square. The women are asking the City of Chicago to do something. 'His wife just opened up a children's play space, art space business,' said Ellen Kim.
He did not have to register as a sex offender. 'Our goal from the beginning was to get him on the sex offender list, because that is the only legal safeguard that would have protected us growing up,' said Ellen Kim. So seeing John Kim in the photo at the newly-opened children's art space – and learning that the business received a $183,439 community development taxpayer-funded grant from the city – has the women's blood boiling. The women reached out to the office of Ald.