{"id":8235,"date":"2025-04-25T16:34:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T21:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=8235"},"modified":"2025-04-25T16:34:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T21:34:25","slug":"danville-man-ruled-sexually-violent-person-by-jury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/8235-danville-man-ruled-sexually-violent-person-by-jury\/","title":{"rendered":"Danville Man Ruled Sexually Violent Person by Jury"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>Attorney General Kwame Raoul\u00a0announced a Vermilion County jury on\u00a0Thursday\u00a0found a\u00a0convicted sex offender\u00a0is a Sexually Violent Person (SVP). The case was prosecuted by the Attorney General\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Vermilion County Circuit\u00a0Court Judge Mark Goodwin ordered Otis Arrington, 66, of Danville, Illinois to be committed to the custody of the\u00a0Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS).\u00a0Arrington\u00a0had been detained in the IDHS Treatment and Detention Facility awaiting his trial.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis offender\u2019s violent history indicates his release would pose a threat to women in the community,\u201d Raoul said. \u201cI am committed to protecting Illinois families and communities from offenders who have been deemed sexually violent by the court.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to Raoul\u2019s office,\u00a0Arrington\u00a0was convicted in Indiana in 1978 of rape and burglary and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Just four months after his 1989 release and while on parole, Arrington committed aggravated criminal sexual assault, home invasion, residential burglary, armed violence and armed robbery in Danville, Illinois. He was convicted and sentenced to 60 years in prison for those charges in 1990.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Under the Sexually Violent Persons Commitment Act, Raoul\u2019s office files cases seeking to commit offenders to the custody of IDHS. To be committed under the act, a person must have been convicted of a sexually violent offense and suffer from a mental disorder. The Attorney General\u2019s office must also prove that the offender is likely to commit future acts of sexual violence if released from custody. Once committed to IDHS, offenders are reevaluated on a regular basis to determine if they continue to meet the criteria for commitment as a sexually violent person.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Assistant Attorney General Nicole Bartell and Deputy Chief William Bryant handled the case for Raoul\u2019s Sexually Violent Persons Bureau.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney General Kwame Raoul\u00a0announced a Vermilion County jury on\u00a0Thursday\u00a0found a\u00a0convicted sex offender\u00a0is a Sexually Violent Person (SVP). The case was prosecuted by the Attorney General\u2019s office. &nbsp; Vermilion County Circuit\u00a0Court [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2276,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Danville Man Ruled Sexually Violent Person by Jury - Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/8235-danville-man-ruled-sexually-violent-person-by-jury\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Danville Man Ruled Sexually Violent Person by Jury - 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