Earlier victim of man charged in CTA rape says system failed to stop him

A woman who was attacked by the man charged with sexually assaulting a woman in a wheelchair at a CTA station said that crime should not have happened, and wouldn’t have if the city hadn’t failed to step in.

The accused attacker’s name is Rasheed Griffin, and he has a long criminal past. Police said the 23-year-old attacked another woman, who asked to be called Monae and whose identity CBS News Chicago is protecting, as she got off a CTA bus near Midway.

“The man just approached me and started punching me,” she recalled. “This first punch sent me flying to the ground. I hit my head on the ground, and from there he was just over me, punching, punching.”…

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