10 Years Later, Flossmoor Man On Trial For Girl's Kidnapping, Rape

MARKHAM, IL — The trial of a Flossmoor man charged in the 2013 kidnapping and sexual assault of a then-6-year-old girl began this week, with testimonies from the teen and the man who found her after the incident.

Christopher Young, now 56, was not charged in connection with the incident until 2019, when Homewood police said DNA linked him to the crimes. Young was charged with predatory criminal sexual assault and aggravated kidnapping in the incident.

The girl, now 16 years old, recounted the night in court Wednesday.

"When I was 6 years old, I was taken from my home," she testified, as reported by the Chicago Tribune.

The girl remembers being taken from her Homewood home on Bunker Avenue, where she had been asleep on a mattress in the living room, the night of Dec. 28, 2013. She was taken to Young's home, according to prosecutors, where she was sexually assaulted, before being left on a stoop of another Flossmoor home, the Tribune reported.

Young's attorney argued that he did not fit the description initially provided by the girl, but she later identified him in a photo lineup.

DNA samples collected from the girl did not pull any matches from state databases back in 2014, Patch previously reported, but during the course of an investigation, Homewood police said Young was identified as a suspect and a DNA sample from him was found to be a match.

Testimonies continued Thursday.