A 54-year-old Effingham man already known to local police for skipping his sex offender registration is now facing child sexual abuse material charges after investigators searched his home on Fayette Avenue and tracked him down at a local motel. Travis J. Gillespie was taken into custody the morning of September 3, and a judge has since ordered him held in jail without release ahead of his next court date. Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul's…
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