People v. Shields

Mr. JUSTICE THOMAS J. MORAN

delivered the opinion of the court:

A jury found the defendant, John Shields, guilty of deviate sexual assault in violation of Section 11 — 3 of the Criminal Code (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1969, ch. 38, sec. 11 — 3); he was sentenced for a period of four to eight years in the penitentiary. His appeal was transferred here by the Supreme Court.

It is undisputed that on three separate occasions in January, 1971, the complaining witness, a seventeen year old male who was being held in the Kane County Jail, was blindfolded and sexually assaulted by some of his fellow inmates. The…