Joe Harvey Jr of Illinois Has Raped an Infant

Authorities say a 27-year-old suburban Chicago man has been charged with sexual assault and abuse of an infant.

The Kendall County Sheriff's office says Joe Harvey Jr. was charged after the mother noticed injuries to the child last week and went to an Aurora hospital.

Other details aren't available, including the gender and age of the infant.

Harvey's a former boyfriend of the 20-year-old mother. On Saturday night, the Montgomery man was still in jail on a $250,000 bond. His arraignment's Monday...

Shiloh husband charged with wife's murder

A Shiloh husband who fled to Chicago after his wife was stabbed to death Monday has been charged with her murder.

Clarence Ashley, 37, was charged with one count of first-degree murder of his wife, Kymberly Ashley, said Shiloh Police during a press conference Wednesday afternoon. His bail was set at $2 million by Circuit Court Judge Milton Wharton.

Both husband and wife lived together at 528 Williamsburg, Apt. D in Shiloh with their child. The murder was the result of a domestic fight...

Man Who Murdered Wife Decades Ago Found Dead in Apparent Murder-Suicide

In 1987, Richard Wiley was sentenced to 30 years in prison for stabbing his 25-year-old wife to death. He served 15 years, and was released in 2000, apparently remarrying around that time.

Yesterday, his body, his current wife's body and her 17-year-old son's body were found in the parsonage of a church in an upscale Chicago suburb, where his wife worked as office coordinator. Although an investigation has not yet been completed, it seems clear that Wiley shot his wife and stepson to death before shooting himself to death, according to the Sun-Times.

Wiley, 54, had unsuccessfully asserted an insanity defense based on his "intermittent explosive disorder" at trial for the murder of his previous wife, the newspaper writes...

Man faces 55 counts of assault, abuse

A Sandwich man has been charged with 19 counts of felony criminal sexual assault and 36 counts of felony aggravated criminal sexual abuse after a three-month-long Oswego Police Department investigation involving the suspect's relationship with a minor.

Bryan E. Kerber, 27, of the 200 block of South Wells, Sandwich, has been under investigation since December, when police were alerted by a concerned employee at a business on Orchard Road who believed that Kerber, a manager, was having an inappropriate relationship with the minor, also an employee...

Man ordered to prison for sexual assault of child

A Madison County man has been ordered to spend eight years in prison in the 2005 sexual attack of a 13-year-old girl.

Thirty-nine-year-old Anson Carr declined to address the judge before being sentenced Wednesday in Edwardsville in southwestern Illinois.

Jurors convicted Carr in October of aggravated criminal sexual assault...

Cicero man charged with impersonating cop, rape

A 34-year-old Cicero man serving a sentence for robbery was charged today with raping a Chicago woman at knifepoint two years ago while pretending to be a police officer.

George Carlos arrived to pick the 30-year-old victim up at her Northwest Side residence for a lunch date, Assistant Cook County State’s Attorney Teresa Molina said. When she refused to have sex with him, he pretended to be on a police radio talking to other officers, Molina said.

Armed with a knife, Carlos told the woman she could either have sex with him or go to jail, Molina said...

Joliet man charged in fatal stabbing of former girlfriend

A Joliet man accused of fatally stabbing his ex-girlfriend was ordered held in lieu of $5 million bail by a Will County judge Friday.

Jeramy J. Green, 23, of the 1800 block of Ashbury Circle Drive is charged with two counts of first-degree murder. Assistant State's Atty. Michael Casson said that Green admitted to stabbing Brittany Brooks, 21, of Joliet, Wednesday night while they quarreled in her car. Green then dragged her out and continued to stab her a total of 34 times, he said...More Here...