Former Geneva Doctor's Accuser Testifies During Rape Trial

KANE COUNTY, IL — The woman accusing a former Geneva doctor of raping her at his home back in November 2012 testified during his trial Tuesday. According to the Daily Herald, Tuesday marked the first full day of testimony in the rape trial of former doctor Mark G. Lewis, 60, who is charged with aggravated criminal sexual assault and criminal sexual assault of the Crystal Lake woman when she was 26. St. Charles police and Kane County prosecutors accuse Lewis of sexually assaulting the woman at his former St. Charles home on Nov. 17, 2012, and he was arrested at his practice in Geneva in summer 2014 on an arrest warrant for those offenses.

According to the Daily Herald, the woman said Tuesday that she had been at the former doctor's house for a dinner party that November night and remained at the home with Lewis and his girlfriend after the other guests left. The news report said the woman testified that she had two half-glasses of wine that night, and the former doctor gave her a Maker's Mark whiskey and a soda chaser she requested, though she didn't watch him prepare the drink. However, after she drank the whiskey, she said "everything just went blank," and woke up in one of Lewis' daughters' bedrooms early the next morning, naked from the waist down, with Lewis lying next to her. The woman also testified that she went back to sleep before waking up and going to Centegra Hospital in McHenry for a rape kit, resulting in recovered DNA matching Lewis', prosecutors and testimony reported. The former doctor's defense attorneys have argued the sex was consensual and that the woman received a settlement in 2013 to a lawsuit she filed.

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If convicted, Lewis faces a sentence of six to 30 years in prison, according to the Kane County State's Attorney's office, along with lifetime registration as a sex offender.

In March 2018, Lewis was sentenced to eight years in prison in a separate case involving drug possession charges, which came a year after his sexual assault arrest. According to prosecutors, Lewis was sentenced for possessing 110 marijuana plants in the basement of his former St. Charles home.

Lewis pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of cannabis with intent to deliver, a Class X felony, and unlawful possession of a firearm without a Firearm Owners Identification Card, a Class 3 felony, in early 2018. Lewis was also ordered to pay a $137,720 fine.

Lewis has remained in custody since he was arrested in the drug case. Under state law, he is eligible for day-for-day sentencing and will receive credit for 1,029 served in the Kane County jail.

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