Sentenced for predatory criminal sexual assault/aggravated criminal sexual abuse of five-year-old.
Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow announced Vincent Winters, 58, of Joliet, was sentenced to his natural life in prison by Judge Sarah Jones for the predatory criminal sexual assault of a five-year-old girl in 2017. On November 16, 2023, a Will County jury found Winters guilty of three counts of Predatory Criminal Sexual Assault of a Child (a Class X felony) and three counts of Aggravated Criminal Sexual Abuse (a Class 2 felony) of the child. Winters received a life sentence as a result of his previous aggravated criminal sexual assault conviction from 1993.
On October 11, 2017, the victim’s mother was starting a new job and asked Winters to watch her two children and take the victim to school in the morning. In the early morning hours before taking the victim to school, Winters sexually assaulted the girl. When the mother picked her daughter up from school, the girl was upset and told her Winters had sexually assaulted her.
“Winters is a repulsive and depraved predator who used a mother’s need for help as his opportunity to sexually prey on a little girl in her own home, while her mother was hard at work at a new job trying to take care of her children,” Glasgow said. “This deviant degenerate individual will spend the remainder of his days locked away from society so he cannot harm another innocent child.”