Illinois Appellate Court
Criminal Court
Evidence
Jury acquitted Defendant of criminal sexual assault charge but convicted him of aggravated criminal sexual abuse of a 16-year-old high school student; he was student's home economics instructor and assistant soccer coach. Court properly admitted both prior bad acts evidence as to incident when, according to victim, Defendant touched her inappropriately when the two were alone in a soccer equipment shed; incidents were proximate in time and involved similar conduct by Defendant. Court properly admitted a document containing text messages (typed by school principal as student/victim read messages aloud) sent to her by Defendant; court properly authenticated document as a transcription of reading, Defendant admitted sending several of the messages, and content of messages was relevant. (LYTTON and McDADE, concurring.)