Ex-Doctor Sentenced In Rape Case

GENEVA, IL — A former Geneva doctor has been sentenced to eight years in prison for sexually assaulting a woman he knew. A Kane County jury found Mark G.P. Lewis, 60, guilty of criminal sexual assault on Sept. 26.

During the trial, the woman, who was 26 at the time of the rape, testified, telling a jury she went to Lewis's home on Squire Lane in St. Charles for a dinner party in November 2012 and stayed with him and his girlfriend after other guests had left, according to the Daily Herald. The woman testified that she had two half-glasses of wine and Lewis also gave her a Maker's Mark whiskey and soda chaser.

She said she did not watch the former doctor make the drink. However, after she drank the whiskey, she said "everything just went blank," and she woke up in one of Lewis' daughters' bedrooms early the next morning, naked from the waist down, with Lewis lying next to her. The woman also testified that she went back to sleep before waking up and going to Centegra Hospital in McHenry for a rape kit, resulting in recovered DNA matching Lewis', prosecutors and testimony reported.

Lewis will be required to serve at least 85 percent of his eight-year sentence and will receive credit for 228 days he's already been at the Kane County jail, prosecutors said.

In 2018, Lewis was also sentenced to eight years in prison for unlawful possession of marijuana with intent to deliver, a Class X felony; and unlawful possession of a firearm without a firearm owners identification card, a Class 3 felony. In 2015, police found 110 marijuana plants, more than 11,000 grams of processed marijuana and a handgun and ammunition at Lewis' home in St. Charles, according to prosecutors. His FOID card has been revoked.

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