When she saw the young man standing on the platform at the 79th Street Red Line station Friday evening, the 14-year-old girl recognized him as one of three attackers who had raped her on the South Side two weeks earlier, prosecutors said Saturday.
She called police, and they arrested Christopher Kirk just after 9 p.m. on the platform.
Despite a dispute over his age–his attorney says he is 16, but court records say he is 17–Kirk will be charged as an adult, Assistant State’s Atty. Jenni Scheck said.
Kirk of the 7400 block of South St. Lawrence Avenue shook his head “no” as a description of the attack was read in court Saturday.
He was ordered held in lieu of $300,000 bail.
A second suspect, Victor Hill, 20, is accused of attacking the girl as she walked home from a library about 5:40 p.m. Oct. 15.
Scheck said Hill dragged the girl into the basement of his nearby house in the 9900 block of South Lowe Avenue.
There, Kirk and a third suspect, who is not yet in custody, joined him, and the three took turns raping her, Scheck said.
After she escaped the house, a passerby on the street who heard her cries for help called police, Scheck said.
When authorities arrived at the house, they arrested Hill, who has been indicted. Hill is scheduled to appear in court at 9 a.m. Nov. 17, Scheck said.
To verify Kirk’s age, the judge said, Kirk’s mother must bring his birth certificate to court Monday.
When Kirk was arrested, he had 6.2 grams of marijuana, worth about $35, in his right coat pocket, according to court documents.
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