People v. McGuirk

Nathaniel McGuirk was sentenced to twenty to thirty years in the penitentiary after being found guilty, in a nonjury trial, of rape and indecent liberties.

The prosecutrix, a nine-year-old girl, was mistreated and raped by McGuirk who was the janitor of the building in which she lived. In the early afternoon of August 14, 1964, he pulled her down the basement stairs and into his apartment. After he overcame her resistance and raped her, she hid under the bed. A woman who lived in an apartment adjoining McGuirk’s heard a girl say, “You hurt me” and McGuirk reply, “If you do what I tell you to…