Crime & Safety
Teens Plead Not Guilty to NYE Attack
Two 16-year-olds and a 15-year-old are charged with beating and sexually assaulting a Highland Park High School student.
Three teenagers pleaded not guilty last week student last New Year's Eve in Chicago, the Highland Park News reports.
Fifteen-year-old Terrance Ford, 16-year-old Aanwar Barbour and 16-year-old Charles Cuning have been charged as adults with aggravated criminal sexual assault, kidnapping and robbery. They're each ordered held on $750,000 bond, according to the Highland Park News.
The victim had headed into the city on Dec. 31 to see DJ Rusko perform at Congress Theater, but wasn't let in because she had no ID. She got separated from her friends and, according to the Highland Park News, she was seen talking to a group of men outside the venue shortly before she was assaulted.
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The Highland Park News has more detail about what happened next.
Soon after the story first broke in January, The 18-year-old's father spoke to the Chicago Sun-Times at that time.
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"The only thing I want to say is my daughter is doing well," the father said in January.
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