COOK COUNTY CRIMINAL COURTHOUSE — A former public relations executive has been charged with raping a woman in 2013 while he was free on bond for two separate pending rape cases.
Ignacio Carrillo, 41, was later convicted in both cases and is currently serving 18 years in prison, court records show.
He was charged this week in the 2013 rape after DNA evidence linked him to the crime, prosecutors said. Carrillo is accused of raping a 28-year-old woman he followed out of a Near North Side bar on Jan. 27, 2013.
The woman had been drinking at a bar near Clark and Division about 9 p.m. when Carrillo approached and began talking to her, Assistant State's Attorney Erika Gilliam-Booker said during a bond hearing Friday.
The woman soon became uncomfortable and wanted to go home, prosecutors said. She was afraid Carrillo might follow her if she went straight home, so the woman decided to head to another crowded place.
But as she left, Carrillo shoved the victim into a dark secluded area, pushed her against a wall and raped her, Gilliam-Booker said, noting that the woman tried unsuccessfully to break free.
The woman reported the rape to her boyfriend and police that same day, prosecutors said. A rape kit was collected at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, and DNA evidence was eventually linked to Carrillo in February 2015, according to Gilliam-Booker.
Carrillo is charged with criminal sexual assault using force.
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