Handsy Frankfort Doc Facing Sex Case Pleads Guilty But Won't Do Time or Register as a Sex Offender

A disgraced former pediatrician facing nearly a dozen sex crime charges for allegedly molesting five different women in his Frankfort office got off with probation—and won’t even have to register as a sex offender—after copping a plea Wednesday.

When Kishor Jain, 60, showed up to the Will County courthouse, he had a possible 15-year prison sentence hanging over his head if convicted of criminal sexual assault, criminal sexual abuse and battery. Jain would have also been required to register as a sex offender.

But Jain’s lawyer, Gerald Kielian, and special prosecutor Dave Neal hammered out a deal to eliminate three of the five alleged victims and to replace the 11 sex offenses and five counts of battery with unlawful restraint.

Will County Judge Robert Livas accepted the plea and went along with a recommended sentence of 18 months probation. Jain was also sentenced to six months in jail but won’t have to serve a day of it if he successfully completes his probation.

Despite an investigation by the Frankfort police, Jain was not hit with criminal charges until after the mother of one of his patients sued him in January 2013. The Manteno woman claimed Jain suddenly “grabbed (her) breasts with both of his hands while she was talking to him about her child.”

Three more lawsuits alleging Jain groped, fondled and sexually assaulted women while working as a doctor soon followed, and a fifth lawsuit accuses Jain of sexually assaulting a minor child.

All of the lawsuits remain pending.

Jain was arrested in February 2013 but posted bond and never went to jail. His medical license was later suspended indefinitely by the Illinois Department of Financial & Professional Regulation when he refused to testify at a hearing.

While the special prosecutor told Judge Livas during Wednesday’s hearing that Jain has no criminal history, the former doctor was arrested in January 2002 after a 21-year-old Joliet woman told the Frankfort police he groped her breasts and rubbed her thighs and between her legs. Jain also allegedly tried to unzip her pants.

Jain was charged with misdemeanor battery in connection with the alleged attack on the young woman. The case was handed off to the Illinois Attorney General’s Office after it was determined a staffer in the Will County State’s Attorney’s office had a relative who had been treated by a physician at the Hedges Clinic and Jain was eventually found not guilty. The case was later expunged.

Neal said he accomplished what he hoped to with the plea deal.

“Of paramount importance were two things,” Neal said. One was that Jain admit wrongdoing, he said, “and two, that Dr. Jain not be a doctor anymore.”

“His medical license has been revoked,” Neal said. “This conviction means, now and forever, Dr. Jain is Mr. Jain.”

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