The city of Chicago agreed to pay $22.5 million to a woman who was raped and thrown seven stories from a building after she was released from police custody in 2006.
Christina Eilman, who now suffers from brain damage from the fall, has needed medical care ever since the attack.
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The incident happened in 2006 when Eilman was 21-years-old.
Eilman, who is bipolar, was taken into police custody at Midway Airport after suffering a mental breakdown on her flight from California.
Rather than bring Eilman to a hospital, police released her after 29 hours in custody, despite her parents calling at least nine times to warn them about her mental health status and that she was having an episode.
Eilman, a former UCLA student, was released near a housing project in a crime-ridden neighborhood on the city’s notorious South Side when she encountered the sex fiends who attacked her.
Reports say that Eilman was dressed in shorts and a cutoff top and was without her cell phone. She was gang raped at knifepoint and pushed seven stories out of a window.
Only one of her attackers was convicted for abducting Eilman. Gang member Marvin Powell served part of his 12-year sentence before being paroled last spring.
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Eilman’s family requested the settlement to help pay for the medical bills that are amounting because Eilman needs 24-hour care from her brain injury.
We’re sure no amount of money can rectify what happened, but we’re glad that the city of Chicago recognized their wrongdoing.
SOURCE: Daily Mail
