Girl, 16, Sexually Assaulted At A Home On West Side
Police said a 16-year-old girl was beaten and raped inside a home in the Austin neighborhood Monday evening.
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Police said a 16-year-old girl was beaten and raped inside a home in the Austin neighborhood Monday evening.
A federal judge in Wisconsin has ordered a man featured on the Netflix series "Making A Murderer" be released from prison, while prosecutors appeal a ruling overturning his murder conviction, but Brendan Dassey has a deadline to meet before he's set free.
Cook County prosecutors say a 58-year-old woman attacked by a longtime neighbor knocked the man out with a glass mug and a crowbar after he broke into her West Side home Monday and demanded sex.
The ex-girlfriend accusing NBA star Derrick Rose and his friends of rape battled her emotions as she tried to piece together a night she remembers only in "flashes."
A west suburban man was sentenced Wednesday to 40 years in prison for sexually assaulting his girlfriend's young daughter at her Lisle home over a period of five years.
The federal attorney general's office said Thursday that Fidel Urbina was detained on a U.S. extradition warrant in a tiny hamlet named "El Polvo" in a remote part of the border state of Chihuahua.
The boys — ages 12, 15 and 16 — were charged for a robbery and sexual assault that took place about 11 p.m. Sept. 14 in the 9600 block of South Prairie, according to Chicago Police. The three boys entered the home of a 34-year-old woman and sexually assaulted her before leaving with her property.
Armando Robles, 46, faces one count of criminal sexual assault and one count of aggravated criminal sexual abuse.
The Illinois Department of Corrections has agreed to pay $450,000 to a man who says he was punished and humiliated by prison officials after he reported that his cellmate raped him.
Nearly five years after the so-called Dixmoor Five were cleared of the rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl, a convicted sex offender has been charged in the case.
A suspected serial rapist is out of jail on bond tonight, and his accusers are asking why.
Marc Winner, 45, who previously owned Soleil Tanning Salon at 1018 W. Madison, was charged with sexual assault Wednesday, according to a statement from the Cook County state's attorney's office.
Kerwinn Cross was sentenced for a rape on June 25, 2013. He still faces charges in two other attacks that occurred within five days in 2013.
Stephane N. Edouard, of the 800 block of Michigan Avenue, was charged with one felony count of aggravated sexual assault, one felony count of domestic battery and one felony count of unlawful restraint, according to a statement from Evanston police.
An 18-year-old man and his friend allegedly raped and beat a middle-aged woman so severely in the basement of a Logan Square apartment building, her dentures fell out during the attack and she was left with a broken jaw, cuts and bruises.
Anthony Triplett, now 35, sexually assaulted and strangled Janet Ordidge in her Hyde Park high-rise just weeks before he attacked Urszula Sakowska in her Southwest Side home in December 2006, Cook County prosecutors said.
A man who served more than two decades in prison after being wrongfully convicted of rape was set to go free on Monday.
Raymond B. Gates, 29, and Marina A. Lonina, 18 were indicted on Wednesday on multiple counts, including rape,
Kyle Parker, 22, has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder, rape, strangulation, child molesting, and more in the death of 15-month-old Shaylyn Ammerman.
A 26-year-old man has been arrested for robbing and raping a woman near a Red Line station in the Rogers Park neighborhood on Sunday.
Jason Hooks, 20, has been charged with two felony counts of aggravated sexual assault, police said.
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Michael Jones, 62, has been charged with two counts of murder and one count of aggravated sexual assault in the 1985 death of Glenbard South High School student Kristina Wesselman.
"I have a suggestion for anyone who isn't familiar with the complexities of sexual assault in America: shut up."
