2 Chicago colleges issue safety alerts after students sexually assaulted
According to the alert, all three incidents happened within five minutes.
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According to the alert, all three incidents happened within five minutes.
Two Chicago colleges issued safety alerts after students were sexually assaulted earlier this week.
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The man was armed with a sharp object in two of the three attacks, police said.
Police said a man approached the women from behind, armed with what is described as a sharp object in two attacks. Tara Molina reports.
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.
The bill was introduced last year after a state senator found that a student in his district was allowed to stay in class after sexually assaulting another student.
Senate Bill 98 would require that students who commit a sexual assault in schools be expelled for at least one year.
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.
Dakota Petrey, 30, has been charged with first-degree murder and aggravated criminal sexual assault in the death of Vanessa Ceja Ramirez.
Prosecutors said Andrew Anania faces 7 years to life in prison.
Ricardo Lemos, 42, was convicted on Oct. 24, 2024, of criminal sexual assault.
After sexually assaulting the woman, the man stole some of her belongings, and fled through the back door.
Jaime Reyes, 70, pleaded guilty to three counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse of a child and one count of predatory criminal sexual assault of a child.
In October, a jury convicted Ernesto Velasquez-Jimenez, 36, of three counts of Predatory Criminal Sexual Assault of a child and seven counts of Aggravated Criminal Sexual Abuse of a child.
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The civil suit brought by the victim was originally filed against Sean "Diddy" Combs, who the woman says assaulted her at the same party following the video music awards.
Aaron Richmond, 31, of Harvey, has been charged with aggravated criminal sexual abuse and aggravated criminal sexual assault.
Larry Foster, of Lisle, is accused of entering the victim's home and sexually assaulting them on March 16.
The suit claims the school knew the security guard's behavior was out of the ordinary and failed to report it.
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.
The suit claims the school knew the security guard's behavior was out of the ordinary and failed to report it. Tara Molina reports.
Former teacher Andrew Castro is also facing criminal sexual assault and sexual exploitation charges, and is awaiting trial.
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Village President Fitzgerald Roberts said that the repairs on Paige were completed at around 3 p.m.
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Police in Joliet, Illinois, were searching Sunday for a man who held up a cellphone store this weekend.
A woman was in custody after another woman was slashed in Chicago's Roseland neighborhood this weekend.
Local and federal authorities said "investigators are actively inspecting the information provided in the message for its authenticity" regarding the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie.
A South Side community came together on Friday, hoping for justice after a woman was shot and killed while her baby was in the back seat of their car earlier this week.
A Chicago city employee was found shot to death Friday morning inside an apartment in the West Ridge neighborhood.
