People v. Gonis

Illinois Appellate Court
Criminal Court
Sexual Assault
Citation
Case Number: 
2018 IL App (3d) 160166
Decision Date: 
Thursday, December 13, 2018
District: 
3d Dist.
Division/County: 
Grundy Co.
Holding: 
Affirmed.
Justice: 
SCHMIDT

Defendant was convicted, after stipulated bench trial, of criminal sexual assault of his daughter, then age 16. Court did not err in admitting into evidence the results of DNA paternity tests showing that there was a 99.9999% probability that he was the father of his daughter's 2 children, who were born when she was 17 and 19. Defendant failed to show that the use of a prior probability necessitated an assumption that he had sexual intercourse with his daughter. (HOLDRIDGE and O'BRIEN, concurring.)