Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Sentence - 21 Years - Predatory Criminal Sexual Assault Of A Child

Following a two-hour jury deliberation, 56-year old Robert Lucht, formerly of Lake-in-the-Hills, was found guilty of three counts of the offense of Predatory Criminal Sexual Assault of a Child and one count of the offense of Aggravated Criminal Sexual Abuse.

McHenry County State’s Attorney Louis A. Bianchi, in announcing the jury verdict reports that the victim of the offense of Predatory Criminal Sexual Assault of a Child was an 11-year old girl who was admitted to a hospital for suicidal intentions and for harming herself.

She then reported that she had been sexually assaulted by the defendant multiple times between the ages of seven and nine. When the defendant was confronted with the allegations by the police he gave a written confession admitting he had assaulted the child. The defendant will be sentenced on November 20 at 1:30 pm and faces a minimum sentence of 21 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections.

The case was prosecuted by Sharyl Eisenstein and Michael Combs, Chief of the Criminal Division of the McHenry County State’s Attorney’s Office. 


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