By Kim Geiger
Tribune reporter
7:40 p.m. CDT, April 6, 2014
A Chicago man and convicted murderer was ordered held without bail Sunday after being charged in the February sexual assault of a woman in her mid-90s.
Robert Mitchell, 60, was arrested Saturday at a residence in the Pullman neighborhood and charged with aggravated criminal sexual assault of a victim over the age of 60.
The assault occurred Feb. 4 about 9 p.m., when the victim answered a knock on the door of her Morgan Park home near 111th and Aberdeen streets from a man who said that he was a friend of the victim’s deceased son, prosecutors said.
The woman welcomed the man in and was standing with him in her kitchen when he picked her up and carried her into a bedroom, threw her on a bed, and sexually assaulted her with his hand, prosecutors said.
He also hit her in the head, causing injuries to her face, prosecutors said.
The woman was treated for her injuries but continues to suffer bleeding in her brain, prosecutors said. Records and prosecutor statements Sunday put her age at either 95 or 96.