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Police Charge 15-Year-Old Boy for Blue Line Sexual Assault, Robbery

By Linze Rice | April 22, 2015 4:32pm | Updated on April 22, 2015 8:06pm
 Chicago police released this image after a 41-year-old woman was attacked Monday by a man after boarding CTA Blue Line.
Chicago police released this image after a 41-year-old woman was attacked Monday by a man after boarding CTA Blue Line.
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CHICAGO — A 15-year-old boy, from Chicago, has been charged for sexually assaulting and robbing a woman on the CTA Blue Line Monday night, police said.

The boy, accompanied by his guardian, turned himself in "after seeing his photograph broadcasted in the media," a Chicago Police press release said.

On Monday, a 41-year-old Oak Park woman boarded the Blue Line stop around 3:10 p.m. on an otherwise empty train car. A boy attacked the woman from behind and forced her to the ground before assaulting her and robbing her of an iPhone and money, police said.

The man then exited the Blue Line train at Cicero Avenue, before switching directions and fleeing on a westbound train to Austin Boulevard, police said. The woman used the train's help button to call for assistance.

 Detective Jackie Mok speaks during a press conference Tuesday night about a brutal sexual attack that took place Monday afternoon.
Detective Jackie Mok speaks during a press conference Tuesday night about a brutal sexual attack that took place Monday afternoon.
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The woman suffered non life-threatening injuries and was treated at a hospital, Detective Jackie Mok said during a news conference Tuesday night.

Early Tuesday evening, police issued an alert that contained screen captures from CTA security cameras of the boy who they alleged committed the attack. He had boarded the same eastbound train two stops earlier at Forest Park.

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