A Chicago man will likely spend the rest of his life behind bars after a plea deal for child molesting, court records show.
Christopher Colbert, 36, was sentenced to 85 years Wednesday for Level 1 felony rape, Level 1 felony child molesting, and Level 6 domestic battery.
He was accused of drugging and raping a preteen girl, then kicking a woman who tried to intervene in one assault, records show.
Judge Natalie Bokota said the woman, who reported the abuse to the cops, was a “hero.”
The assaulted woman went to the Dyer police station Nov. 3, 2023, to report a preteen girl’s abuse.
Colbert set up a Ring video system in the child’s room. Video from around 11 p.m. Oct. 22 showed Colbert lying next to the girl in the bed, then he sexually assaults the child.
The girl “does not appear to react” or know “what was going on,” according to the affidavit.
When the woman confronted him, Colbert kicked her to the ground. She ran to the bedroom to save the Ring video on her cellphone. He chased her around, held a gun to her head, then went back to the girl’s room.
The child told investigators Colbert had abused her for seven years — including at houses in Hammond and Dyer. He gave her “drugs,” “weed gummies,” and a “sex pill.”
He gave the kids “sleep medicine,” the child said. It made her “dizzy,” and she went “straight to sleep.” He also gave her cocaine in the past, she alleged.
