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Defendants plead not guilty in sex crime cases Ilan Gibori
Updated 5/7/2021 8:31 PM
Two Lake County residents facing charges of committing sex crimes against minors pleaded not guilty Friday in separate hearings in Lake County circuit court.
Ilan Gibori, 46, a former middle school teacher from Vernon Hills, faces 25 counts of criminal sexual assault by a person in a position of trust or supervision against a victim ages 13 to 17.
Gibori, who faces a possible sentence of four to 15 years per count, was arrested by the Department of Homeland Security in March at Dallas Fort-Worth Airport. Authorities said he was attempting to evade a Lake County warrant on the charges.
âIâll see you in heaven.â
It was the last thing Al Braccolino, 90, of Crown Point, told one of his daughters as paramedics loaded him into an ambulance Nov. 16. COVID-19 forced him into the final fight of his life.
Ten days later, the chair Al usually occupied at the Thanksgiving table would sit empty. The husband to his wife of 70 years, father of three and grandfather of six died on the holiday.
Alâs daughter, Sandra Noe, was herself suffering from COVID-19, which she contracted while caring for her sick parents, when the virus forced Alâs hospitalization.
Noe, 66, is no stranger to helping elderly shut-ins weather isolation.
And each have stories of their own.
Wilson, 17, is a senior at The Villages Charter School. She recently got back into pageants since being crowned Tiny Miss Leesburg in 2009, hoping to find something to do to impact her community.
“I didn’t want to do a pageant to just sit there and look pretty,” Wilson said. “I wanted something that would give me the opportunity to get out there and help the community. I want to make my mark in my hometown and this was the perfect pageant for that.”
Wilson plans to attend Florida State University in the fall as much of her family, including her dad and brother, have attended there. She hopes to get a business marketing degree and get into real estate.