CHICAGO - A Kane County jury has convicted an Elgin man after prosecutors said he and two others kidnapped and brutally assaulted a woman they knew in 2023.

What we know:

State’s Attorney Jamie Mosser announced Wednesday that 34-year-old Darnell L. Rhodes was found guilty of aggravated kidnapping inflicting great bodily harm, a Class X felony.

Prosecutors said Rhodes, along with Lloyd D. Hayes Jr. and Roger A. Heaps, kidnapped the woman between March 13 and March 14, 2023. The trio threatened her with a knife and drove her to one of their homes, where they bound her with electrical cords.

During the ordeal, prosecutors said the woman was beaten and stabbed multiple times. She suffered a fractured rib, a fractured finger, stab wounds to her legs, and blunt force injuries to her head a

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