I always hear of stories about people being abducted and sexually harassed. Sometimes it happens so close to UIC that I often feel very unsafe which causes me to go out less often. Here are a couple of articles about people who are approached and sometimes harmed by random predators.
Man tried to abduct girl, 12, on North Side, police say
3:35 PM CST, February 11, 2008
An unidentified man tried to abduct a 12-year-old girl on Chicago's North Side Friday, Chicago police said Monday.
The girl was walking to school in the 1400 block of West Montrose Avenue at about 8:45 a.m. Friday when a man approached her and asked whether she wanted to go with him, police said. The victim ran to her school and reported the incident.
The man is described as a Hispanic man in his 20s, 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighing 120 pounds. He has very short dark brown hair and crooked and overlapping teeth. He was wearing blue jeans and a short black jacket.
South Side man charged with attempted child abduction
| Tribune reporter
Chicago police have arrested a man they say tried to abduct an 11-year-old girl as she walked to school Thursday on the South Side.
The man, identified by police Monday as Mister Pearson, 28, of the 500 block of East 36th Place, has been charged with one count of attempted child abduction, Chicago Police Officer Laura Kubiak said.
At about 8:20 a.m. Thursday, the girl was on the 1300 block of West 82nd Street when a man driving a blue Ford sedan began following her and motioned for her to come his vehicle, police said.
When she refused, he rolled down the window and told her to approach it. The girl then ran to a school crossing guard, who notified police.
Police last week said they thought the same individual was responsible for a similar incident that occurred Jan. 28 in the Bronzeville neighborhood, but Kubiak said Monday that investigators do not believe that Pearson is connected to that second attempted child abduction.
In the Jan. 28 case, a man driving a blue, four-door Ford or Mercury sedan called to a 13-year-old girl walking on the 3700 block of South Ellis Avenue.
After the teen ignored the man, he drove away, police said Tuesday. But he returned, got out of the car and grabbed her, police said.
The teen screamed, and the man displayed a knife before fleeing the scene.
That man is described as 22 or 23 years old, 5-feet-10 to 6 feet tall, African-American and about 200 pounds, police said. He also has a scar over his right eye that extends beyond the bridge of his nose.
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