Multiple women sexually assaulted in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood
Three women were sexually assaulted in the past couple weeks, and the neighborhood was on edge Monday. Tara Molina reports.
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Three women were sexually assaulted in the past couple weeks, and the neighborhood was on edge Monday. Tara Molina reports.
In each attack, the attacker approached his victims from behind — and he was armed with a sharp object in two of the three attacks, police said.
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Police had only a vague description of the man, who was in his 20s or 30s, and was last seen wearing a black jacket and black sweatpants.
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The lawsuit claims a security guard at Dunbar Vocational Career Academy would take the student out of class consistently and sexual assault him, and says school employees failed to report it. Tara Molina reports.
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