Cancer Patient Held on Sex Assault Charges of Burbank Sisters Dies

Zdzislaw Jakubczak, 67 | Cook County Sheriff

A 67-year-old man being held in Cook County Jail after he was accused of sexually assaulting two young Burbank sisters has died of a terminal illness, according to news reports.

Zdzislaw Jakubczak, 67, of Bridgeview, was charged with four Class X felony counts of predatory criminal sexual assault against a child in February.

Prosecutors said one of the sisters implicated him in a homework assignment about “inappropriate behavior.”

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According to the charges, Jakubczak abused the girls, who are now 13 and 14, from December 2008 to January 2013. Jakubczak’s wife was good friends with the girls’ mother and the couple often babysat for the girls.

The abuse reportedly took place at the sisters’ home in Burbank and Jakubczak’s Bridgeview residence. Jakubczak allegedly admitted to the abuse in video-recorded interviews, police said.

During Jakubczak’s bond hearing in Bridgeview on Feb. 18, his attorney told Cook County Judge Peter Felice that his client was suffering from Stage 4 colon cancer and did not have long to live.

The Sun-Times reported that Jakubczak, who was being held on $2 million bail, was transferred last week from Cook County Jail’s Cermak Hospital to Stroger Hospital.

Jakubczak was under a 24-hour police guard when he died on Sunday.