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January
14, 2009
Woman Kidnapped and Sexually assaulted While
Being Beaten,
and Robbed in Oak Park.
report
by Ed Vincent
A
young woman from Cicero, in her forties, who has been
delivering newspapers to Oak Park for sometime was
attacked by a person that she had reportedly seen, on her route
numerous times in the recent past.
Park and a block away from the elevated train (where
officials have ignored the call for cameras to be installed).
She was bringing newspapers in her 2000 Nissan Quest
with Illinois plates, to our town.
It was early in the morning, about 5:30 a.m., when a black
male in his mid forties about 200 pounds and having a
muscular build, grabbed the woman and began beating
her with a piece of pipe in the face and head. He forced her
into her van and proceeded to head back to his believed
neighborhood on the west side of the City. He is suspected
to have come to Oak Park using our mass transit system,
which is felt by police to be used in many local crimes.
Once he left Oak Park and entered the Austin neighborhood
he stopped just a block or two in Chicago. He got out of the
van and pulled her forcefully from the vehicle and tried without success to bind her hands behind her back. The
perpetrator was unable to tie and restrain the woman to his
satisfaction and forced her back into the van. He drove
only a few blocks more, further into the Austin neighborhood of Chicago.
The daylight
was getting brighter and this beast stopped the woman's stolen van on
the street, still unable to tie her up he forcefully removed the
victims clothes from the waist up. When the victims clothes were
taken, the man perhaps heard someone coming and turned to see who or
what it was. The woman noted his distraction and took that moment
to flee
her abductor. She ran straight to a house and cried for help.
The residents called the Chicago Police Department and Area
15 Police came to her asssistance.
The black male in his mid forties about 200
pounds and having a muscular build, drove the stolen van away when
the woman had freed herself. It is not known if the van or
the man has yet to be found. The man was wearing a blue
and yellow scarf over his face, dark gloves, dark jacket,
dark pants, and a dark skull cap or dew rag.
Chicago police contacts helped with this
story, Oak Park
made no press releases concerning the plate number, or
official description of the criminal or victim. When David
Pope, the President of the Village of Oak Park was asked
the other day about the incident, he had no knowledge.
An abbreviated story was in the Tribune and
other local
news called the event a car jacking and no details from
their source.
embraced by all police we have spoken to.
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