From the files of strange sex crimes, here is the latest addition from Illinois:
A podiatrist who practiced on Chicago's South Side was found guilty Monday of sexually assaulting an elderly woman after she sought treatment for a sprained ankle in 2006.
Anthony Overton, 63, of Olympia Fields, faces a minimum sentence of 12 years in prison after Circuit Judge Michael Toomin convicted him in Cook County Criminal Court on two counts of aggravated criminal sexual assault.
Three other patients also testified at the bench trial that each had been touched inappropriately by Overton during exams.
Overton still faces similar sex charges stemming from accusations leveled by those three victims as well as three others, said Andy Conklin, a spokesman for the Cook County state's attorney's office.
At the trial, the woman testified she went to Overton's office in the 9600 block of South Halsted Street in June 2006 because of pain in her right foot.
The woman, now 76, said Overton performed invasive examinations after he asked her to disrobe and put on a hospital gown. She was later diagnosed with a sprained ankle after an X-ray.
Another woman, 52, testified that Overton performed gynecological examinations on repeated visits until she finally questioned his actions.
"I asked him, 'What does that have to do with my feet?' " the woman testified in March. "He said, 'You can have a nurse in here the next time.' "
It seems awful bold for a foot doctor to assert the necessity of a gynecological exam for almost any foot injury. Yet, at trial, that is exactly what Overton argued.
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