A Nicaraguan migrant has been detained after prosecutors accused him of brutally attacking and raping a 54-year-old girl in a Northwest Aspect alley.
Prosecutors mentioned the assault occurred round 3 a.m. on August 31. The lady was strolling within the 2300 block of North Lavergne Avenue when Leyter Arauz-Medina allegedly ran out of Blackhawk Park, grabbed her by the hair, and dragged her screaming throughout the road into an alley.
Assistant State’s Legal professional Michael Pekara instructed Choose Antara Nath Rivera that surveillance video captured Arauz-Medina pulling the lady to the bottom and forcing her behind a dumpster.
“After strangling her, he then grabbed her by the hair with each of his fingers and repeatedly slammed the again of her head into the concrete, inflicting her to lose consciousness,” Pekara said.
When she regained consciousness, Arauz-Medina was on high of her together with his non-public half out, Pekara mentioned. The lady managed to kick him within the groin however he allegedly threw her down once more and assaulted her additional. Pekara mentioned a passing motorist interrupted the assault, prompting Arauz-Medina to flee.
“The sufferer sought assist from that automotive, but it surely drove off.” Pekara continued. “She then walked down Fullerton nonetheless fully bare, in search of assist, in the end coming upon a meals truck that was nonetheless open.”
Nonetheless bare and injured, the sufferer stumbled to a meals truck on Fullerton Avenue, the place employees gave her a blanket and referred to as 911. Police discovered her bruised and bleeding, then shortly situated Arauz-Medina close by, matching her description of the attacker’s distinctive coiffure.
Arauz-Medina tried to run however was detained. Officers allegedly recovered a few of the sufferer’s clothes and cocaine from his pockets.
Pekara mentioned Arauz-Medina offered an in depth admission to the assault.
Assistant Public Defender Erin Freeman famous that Arauz-Medina had no prior arrests, labored full-time in roofing, and lived with kin since shifting from Nicaragua three years in the past.
Choose Rivera granted the state’s detention petition.
“The defendant poses a menace to all females locally,” she mentioned from the bench. “He poses a menace to this sufferer … This might have occurred wherever within the metropolis of Chicago, particularly because the defendant ingested cocaine, which he says made him do that.”
This story is predicated on court docket continuing transcripts bought by means of CWBChicago’s courtroom transparency fund.
