Flossmoor Man Guilty In Girl's 2013 Rape, Kidnapping Gets 60 Years

MARKHAM, IL — A Flossmoor man convicted earlier this year in the 2013 kidnapping and sexual assault of a 6-year-old Homewood girl was sentenced Monday to 60 years in prison, according to court records.

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 then charged with predatory criminal sexual assault and aggravated kidnapping in the incident.

The girl remembers being taken from her Homewood home on Hood Road, 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 girl, now 16 years old, recounted the night in court, then pointing to Young as the man responsible.

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

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.

Young was sentenced to 30 years for each count, the sentences to run consecutive, according to court documents.