Crime & Safety
10-Year-Old Girl Sexually Assaulted By Five Men, Police Botched Case
Police allowed a child predator to roam free. And while he remained free, his victim — a little girl — was locked in a psych ward.
CHICAGO (CBS) — Officers finally arrested one of the suspects late Friday, but as CBS 2 Investigator Dave Savini revealed Monday night, they could have arrested him months ago — and didn’t. Instead, they allowed a child predator to roam free. And while he remained free, his victim — a little girl — was locked in a psychiatric hospital.
“I’m just as outraged and frustrated as anybody else,” said Jennifer Coleman, the first assistant at Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office. Five men are accused of assaulting the girl, but none of them were charged with felonies until the CBS 2 Investigators exposed the Chicago Police Department’s repeated failure to put any of the men behind bars.
