URBANA - A judge in central Illinois has sentenced a 20-year-old Urbana man to 92 years in prison for an attack on an elderly woman, who was trapped in a closet for several days.
Judge Heidi Ladd on Monday sentenced Steven Taylor to 45 years in prison for home invasion, 40 years for armed robbery and seven years for.aggravated criminal sexual abuse.
The (Champaign) News-Gazette reports that Taylor will be required to serve the three sentences consecutively.
Jurors in Champaign County convicted Taylor in December in the January 2011 attack on the then 79-year-old woman.
Officers went to her home after a mail carrier noticed her door was open and her mail hadn't been picked up.
They found her barricaded in a
closet with her hands tied behind her back. - http://bit.ly/AjUg8e
