By Frank Main
The Chicago Sun Times
COOK COUNTY, Ill. — A Cook County sheriff’s correctional officer has been charged with the 1997 rape of a child in suburban Harvey after a DNA test allegedly linked him to the crime, officials said Wednesday.
Robert Buchanan, 45, was in the Cook County Jail on a charge of predatory criminal sexual assault of a child. He was ordered held Wednesday in lieu of $200,000 bond.
The key to solving the case was a 2007 raid on the Harvey Police Department that was conducted by the Cook County state’s attorney’s office, the sheriff’s office and the Illinois State Police.
More than 200 untested “rape kits” — evidence collected in sexual assaults — were recovered.
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