The Brief
- Chicago Public School student Nancy Alexander was raped over several years by her teacher in 1970s and 1980s, leaving her pregnant with her abuser’s child at just 15 years old.
- Through tracking down her abuser’s family and a subsequent DNA test, Alexander found there is a 99.79% probability her daughter and her abuser’s daughter are half-sisters.
- Despite an Illinois law passed in 2019 eliminating the statute of limitations for sexual assault, Chicago police cannot arrest Alexander’s abuser despite knowing who the suspect is.
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CHICAGO — For more than 40 years, Nancy Alexander lived in the shadow of a secret that broke her heart every single day.
She was just a young girl—a Chicago Public School student struggling with epilepsy—when the one person assigned to help her learn to read allegedly stole her childhood instead.…