Bolingbrook Man Sentenced To 31 Years In Prison For Sexual Abuse

BOLINGBROOK, IL — A 28-year-old Bolingbrook man has been sentenced to 31 years in prison for sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl while he was living in the girl’s home with her and her wheelchair-bound mother, the Will County State’s Attorney Office recently announced.

Harry Carr was sentenced by Circuit Court Judge Sarah Jones for aggravated sexual abuse of the girl in 2012. Carr was found guilty of two counts of aggravated criminal sexual assault and three counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse in June.

In 2012, the victim attempted suicide and the mother found a note in the girl’s purse discussing her sexual activities with Carr, who was 19 years old at the time, Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow said in a news release. Carr had sexually assaulted the girl numerous times on the second floor of the girl’s home, while the girl’s mother was confined to a wheelchair on the first floor, prosecutors said.

“The conduct of this predator who took advantage of a young girl in her own home while her disabled mother was downstairs is sickening,” Glasgow said in a statement. “Although we often think that child predators are strangers, the shocking fact is that 90% of child sexual abuse victims know the perpetrator. Sexual predators like Carr who take advantage of children often deceive the family by pretending to be trusting and caring, when their ultimate goal is to prey upon an innocent child. Such manipulative predators are morally reprehensible.”