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Chicago woman pleads guilty to sexually assaulting Streator teenager · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Chicago woman pleads guilty to sexually assaulting Streeter teenager. Written
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  Speaker 1: by Tom Collins, This article is being read by an
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  Speaker 1: automated voice brought to you by Everlett. A Chicago woman
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  Speaker 1: is headed to prison after pleading guilty Friday to sexually
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  Speaker 1: assaulting a teenage girl in street. Patricia D. Johnson, thirty nine,
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  Speaker 1: of Chicago, appeared in LaSalle County Circuit Court and entered
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  Speaker 1: a blind plea to two counts of criminal sexual assault,
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  Speaker 1: a Class one felony carrying four to fifteen years in prison.
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  Speaker 1: She is ineligible for probation on one of the counts,
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  Speaker 1: which also is subject to an eighty five percent minimum. Additionally,
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  Speaker 1: any time from the two counts must be served back
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  Speaker 1: to back for an aggregate sentence up to thirty years.
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  Speaker 1: There is no sentencing agreement or cap on how much
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  Speaker 1: time Johnson will face. Sentencing is set for October first,
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  Speaker 1: before Chief Judge H. Chris Ryan Junior. Johnson will have
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity to address the judge before sentencing. Johnson was
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  Speaker 1: charged after Streeter police opened an investigation into acts reported
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  Speaker 1: in February twenty twenty five. Prosecutors said a forensic scientist
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  Speaker 1: conducted DNA testing, and that a sample retrieved from the
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  Speaker 1: victim was matched to Johnson