'I deserve this': Military vet abducted woman at Starbucks on Veterans Day, told her he deserved to rape her because he fought for the U.S.

An Illinois antheral has been ordered to walk much than a period down bars aft helium abducted a pistillate astatine knifepoint from a Starbucks parking batch and past raped her connected Veterans Day — telling the victim, "I merit this," due to the fact that helium served successful the military.

Timothy Dubois, 42, was sentenced to 40 years for 1 number of aggravated transgression intersexual assault, 40 years for different number of aggravated transgression intersexual Assault, 30 years for aggravated kidnapping, 5 years for 1 number of aggravated transgression intersexual maltreatment and five years for different number of aggravated transgression intersexual abuse.

Dubois indispensable service a minimum of 68 years of his 120-year sentence. His lawyers reportedly asked for a sentencing interruption owed to him being a subject vet.

"We enactment a monster distant today," Collinsville Police Chief Brett Boerm told section Fox affiliate KTVI and different media outlets aft Dubois' sentencing hearing.

Dubois abducted his unfortunate connected Nov. 11, 2022, from a Starbucks parking batch successful Collinsville. He got into the victim's car "with a ample knife" and ordered her to thrust to a residential country successful Troy, wherever helium sexually assaulted her, according to the Madison County State's Attorney's Office.

Dubois past drove the pistillate backmost to the Collinsville concern district, "put a overgarment implicit the victim's head, ordered her to number to 100, and vanished," an SAO press release says, announcing Dubois' sentence.

"Do you cognize what contiguous is? It's Veterans Day," Dubois told the pistillate aft abducting her, according to tribunal grounds reported by KTVI. "I merit this due to the fact that I'm a veteran."

A Madison County assemblage convicted Dubois successful May. During his trial, the unfortunate testified that she feared helium would termination her.

"The unfortunate was not acquainted with the Troy location, but investigators were capable to way the question of her Apple Watch to a wide area," the SAO merchandise says. "Investigators combed the country and, connected a gravel roadway successful Troy, recovered a discarded condom. The condom contained antheral DNA and the DNA of the victim. The antheral DNA, however, did not lucifer immoderate profiles successful a constabulary database."

Collinsville constabulary investigators utilized Forensic Investigative Genetic Genealogy to travel up with a database of adjacent relatives of the antheral DNA profile, according to prosecutors, with the accusation yet starring authorities to Dubois.

"Today's condemnation brings a measurement of justness for a unfortunate who endured an unimaginable ordeal," Boerm said successful a abstracted statement. "While nary condemnation tin erase the trauma that was inflicted, we anticipation this result provides immoderate consciousness of closure and reassurance that the idiosyncratic liable has been held accountable."