A 52-year-old Riverdale man has been sentenced to prison for attacking and choking his girlfriend during an argument in 2015, according to a news release from the Kane County State’s Attorney’s Office.
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Carl C. Walker Sr., 52, of the 0-99 block of West 140th Street, Riverdale, was sentenced by Kane County Circuit Judge James C. Hallock to 16 years in prison.
In December, a Kane County jury convicted Walker of aggravated domestic battery, a Class 2 felony.
Prosecutors, Kane County Assistant State’s Attorneys Bianca Camargo and Vincent Coyle, said during hearings that on the evening of Aug. 13, 2015, Walker and his girlfriend began to argue at her apartment in Aurora. When the girlfriend walked away, into another room, Walker followed, grabbed her around her neck from behind and choked her for 10 to 15 seconds, according to the state’s attorney’s news release.
The victim’s friend noticed bruises on her neck the next day and asked what happened, then called police, prosecutors said.
Walker received an enhanced sentence because of his criminal history, which includes multiple convictions of forcible felonies in Cook County since 1985, according to the state’s attorney’s office.
Walker must serve at least 85 percent of his sentence, in accordance with state law. He receives credit for 29 days already served in the Kane County jail, where online booking records indicated he was still located Monday afternoon.
Walker is a registered sex offender with the state of Illinois. He was convicted in Cook County of aggravated kidnapping and aggravated criminal sex abuse involving bodily harm, in which the victim was 18 and Walker was 27, according to the sex offender registry.
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