Legal Trouble For Daughter Of Convicted Geneva Ex-Doctor

KANE COUNTY, IL — Court records show the daughter of a former Geneva doctor who the Kane County State's Attorney's Office said was recently convicted of criminal sexual abuse is also facing legal trouble. According to Kane County Chronicle, 26-year-old Alesha J. Lewis, the daughter of Mark G. Lewis, was ordered to appear before Kane County Circuit Court Judge John Barsanti on Oct. 2 surrounding a charge of indirect civil contempt of court, records show.

Alesha is accused of making "obvious nodding gestures" during her father's Sept. 26 testimony, and is also accused of intimidating or attempting to intimidate a lead prosecutor in the case on that same day, according to a petition for adjudication of indirect criminal contempt filed by Assistant Kane County State’s Attorney Julianne Gerding. Kane County Chronicle added that Judge Barsanti said he would file a civil petition against Alesha and ordered her not to have any contact with witnesses or officers of the court.

According to online court records, Barsanti signed an order on Oct. 2 for $500 bond (10 percent to apply).

A Kane County jury on Sept. 26, found 60-year-old Mark Lewis guilty of the offense of felony criminal sexual assault.

St. Charles police and Kane County prosecutors accuse Lewis of sexually assaulting the woman at his former St. Charles home on Nov. 17, 2012, and he was arrested at his practice in Geneva in summer 2014 on an arrest warrant for those offenses. The jurors deliberated for less than an hour before reaching the verdict, according to a release from the state's attorney's office.

Kane County Assistant State’s Attorneys Greg Sams and Julianne Gerding presented
evidence during the trial that on Nov. 17, 2012, Lewis sexually assaulted the victim
when she was unable to consent, at his former Squire Lane home, the release said.

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Kane County Circuit Judge John A. Barsanti set Lewis’ next court appearance for Oct. 13 at the Kane County Judicial Center, according to the release.

Lewis faces a minimum sentence of 4 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections, and is currently being held at the Kane County jail.