A recent parolee has been charged in connection with a brutal assault and battery in Grant Park Saturday.
Cortez Foster, 45, is charged with one count of Aggravated Battery with Great Bodily Harm, Aggravated Criminal Sex Assault with Bodily Harm, and Robbery armed with a dangerous weapon.
Foster, who lives on the 1400 block of Canal Street, was initially brought in for questioning on Sunday night, according to the Sun-Times.
His alleged victim, a northwest suburban man in his 60’s, was found walking near Grant Park early Saturday bloody and beaten, after he’d been sodomized with a tree branch.
Shortly after midnight, someone saw the half-naked man walking with a bloody face in the 800 block of South Michigan and called authorities, according to Central District Police Lt. Richard Guerrero.
The victim had severe trauma to his face when paramedics got to the scene. He was not wearing shoes or pants, and had only one sock on. He was earlier believed to be homeless, but as detectives investigated, police News Affairs Officer Michael Fitzpatrick said, they found out that he is from the northwest suburbs.
Doctors at Northwestern Memorial Hospital had to remove part of the branch from the victim’s body. While his condition was not known, his injuries were not thought to be life-threatening, police said.
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Foster had served a six year sentence for armed robbery beginning in 1996, and seven years for armed robbery in 1991.
