Teen in Elgin teacher attack moved to adult prison

Angel Facio, the teen who brutally stabbed an Elgin High School teacher almost two years ago to the day, has been transferred to adult prison.

An Illinois Department of Corrections Web site inmate search reveals Facio, now 18, was moved to the Stateville Correctional Center in Joliet on New Year's Eve.

Facio was previously at the Illinois Youth Center in downstate Kewanee, where he was receiving mental health and sex offender treatment. Legally, he could have remained there until he was 21.

Kane County Assistant State's Attorney Christine Bayer, who prosecuted Facio in two of the teen's three court cases, said the move was strictly at the discretion of the Department of Corrections.

Bayer's office received a notice last week about Facio's transfer.

In June 2008, Facio was convicted in Cook County Juvenile Court of the attempted murder of Elgin High family and consumer science teacher Carolyn Gilbert. Just 16 at the time of the Jan. 18, 2008, attack, Facio stabbed Gilbert in the head, neck and eye with a serrated knife moments after the school's first semester exams had concluded.

In September 2008, Facio received a 16-year adult prison sentence after pleading guilty to aggravated criminal sexual assault in the August 2007 rape of an 8-year-old Elgin girl in the neighborhood. He spent the past year attempting to have his guilty plea withdrawn, claiming his defense attorney had coerced him into accepting a plea agreement. Kane County Judge Allen Anderson dismissed that request in December. A third case, in which Facio was accused of attempting to abduct a 13-year-old Larsen Middle School student just days before his attack on Gilbert, was dismissed earlier this fall.

Facio is currently listed as in "reception" at Stateville.

After 30 days at the Joliet maximum-security prison, Facio will likely be transferred to a different adult prison, Bayer said.

A Statesville spokeswoman said that decision will be made based on Facio's crime, the length of his sentence and his medical needs.