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City to pay $22.5 million to bipolar woman released in high-crime area

 

January 15, 2013   Tags:
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Chicago taxpayers will spend $22.5 million to compensate a mentally-ill California woman who was arrested and held overnight, then released in a high-crime neighborhood, where she was kidnapped and sexually assaulted before falling from a seventh-floor window of a CHA high-rise.

City to pay $22.5 million to bipolar woman released in high-crime area – Chicago Sun-Times.

 

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