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Chicago Tribune
December 9, 2013
A homeless man convicted last month in the 2011 robbery and sexual assault of a Schiller Park grandfather in Grant Park was sentenced to natural life in prison plus seven years today, according to prosecutors and court records.
Cortez Foster, 47, was convicted Nov. 1 of aggravated criminal sexual assault and robbery in the attack on the 65-year-old man starting just before midnight on March 25, 2011 in the 800 block of South Michigan Avenue near the park’s Logan Monument, according to prosecutors and court records.
On Thursday, Cook County Criminal Court Judge Dennis Porter sentenced him to natural life in prison on the sexual assault charge, plus another 7 years for the robbery conviction, according to court records.
The night of the attack, the victim was walking in the park when Foster went up to him and started punching and kicking him, took the victim’s pants off, assaulted him with a tree branch and stole his cell phone, prosecutors have said.
A passerby saw the victim leaning against a concrete railing and wearing no pants after he had walked north a short distance, and the passerby called police, prosecutors said. About 12:15 that morning officers found the victim, who was unable to speak, in the 700 block of South Michigan Avenue.
The victim was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he was treated for multiple facial fractures and cuts, and underwent surgery because of the sexual assault.
Police investigators traced the victim’s missing cell phone to a nearby apartment complex and found the man who had it, who told detectives he gave Foster three Viagra pills for the phone, prosecutors said. Investigators figured out who Foster was by checking a log book at the apartment complex, and found Foster at the Pacific Garden Mission.
Foster had been on parole after being released from prison after serving part of 20-year-sentence for a 2001 armed robbery conviction. After his arrest, he admitted to police he became angry and attacked the 65-year-old victim at the park, officials said after his arrest. He also had two other felony convictions, including in a 1991 robbery and sexual assault case.
