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Judge to issue verdict in 50-year-old rape case

Thursday, April 12, 2012

FILE - This July 27, 2011 file photo provided by the DeKalb County Sheriff's Department in Sycamore, Ill, shows Jack Daniel McCullough, 72, of Seattle. Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday, April 9, 2012, in Sycamore for McCullough, who is charged with rape and indecent liberties with a child for the alleged abuse of a 14-year-old Sycamore girl from 1961 to 1962. The 72-year-old also faces kidnapping and murder charges in the 1957 death of Maria Ridulph, also of Sycamore. Those charges aren't part of the trial starting Monday. (AP Photo/DeKalb County Sheriff's Department, File)

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SYCAMORE, Ill. - April 12, 2012 (WPVI) -- A Seattle man charged with sexually assaulting an Illinois teenager 50 years ago is set to discover his fate.

Jack McCullough is accused of rape and indecent liberties with a child in Sycamore, Ill., in 1962. His accuser testified Tuesday that she was 14 when McCullough raped her and allowed two other men to do the same.

DeKalb County Judge Robbin Stuckert says she will reach a verdict Thursday.

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The Daily Chronicle reports (http://bit.ly/HBya7w ) that prosecutor Victor Escarcida said McCullough took advantage of the teen while he held a position of authority and trust.

Public Defender Regina Harris argued no one can corroborate the victim's story and there is no physical evidence.

McCullough is charged with the 1957 kidnapping and murder of a 7-year-old Sycamore girl in a separate trial.

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