Chicago police: Dozens watched girl’s sexual assault on Facebook Live, but no one reported itChicago police said Tuesday that about 40 people watched a live stream of the alleged sexual assault of a teenage girl — and no one reported it.
The apparent sexual assault of the 15-year-old Chicago girl was streamed on Facebook Live and approximately 40 people viewed it in real time, according to police.
The young girl was reported missing by her mother Sunday night after she didn’t return home from the store, according to the Chicago Tribune.
The teenager had spent the night with a relative, attended church Sunday morning and headed to a nearby store after she was dropped off, the relative said. She wasn’t spotted again until about 7:45 a.m. Tuesday, the Tribune reported.
WGN-TV reported that she was found on a porch crying.
“It hurts me to my core because I was one of the last people to see her,” Reginald King, the girl’s uncle, told the Tribune. “I want to make sure this never happens to anybody else’s kids, and if that starts with taking down this one group, I’ll make that my life’s mission.
Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi tweeted that police are “making good progress identifying persons of interest” in the case but “no formal suspects named yet.”
The Facebook video has since been taken down, but not before screenshots of the video were shown to the girl’s mother so she could identify her daughter. Other relatives, like King, have seen the video as well.
“It was very, very graphic. She’s pulled toward the bed,” King said. “To have it put out there like that, publicly. It’s not right.”
King told the Tribune that a teenager told him about the video. He credited the teenager for doing “one of the bravest things” as he said adults viewed the livestream and did not come forward.
“What’s even more disturbing, more than the fact that they did this, there were so many people that saw this, and they didn’t pick up the phone and dial 911,” police Superintendent Eddie Johnson told WGN. “That’s just not right and [we’re] working on it and try to bring it to a successful resolution.”
Johnson told WGN that he was shown images from the video by the girl’s mother.
Guglielmi told the Tribune that Johnson was “visibly upset when he saw the pictures of the girl and was dismayed when he learned that people were watching the incident live and no one called the police.”
“[Johnson] immediately escorted the mother into the district and called the chief of detectives to order a team of investigators to respond to the district immediately,” Guglielmi said.
Chicago Alderman Michael Scott Jr. said Tuesday that a suspect is in custody but did not identify who the suspect is. However, Guglielmi tweeted Tuesday evening that the assertion could not be confirmed.
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