Report: Chicago woman loses baby after teens kick and punch her in random attack

A pregnant woman told local media she lost her baby after she and her husband were attacked by teenagers in Chicago on Friday.

According to Chicago police, the couple was walking through the Streeterville neighborhood when an “unknown group of assailants” approached and attacked them. Officers arrived around 9 p.m.

According to police, a 14-year-old boy hit the male victim on the head while a 17-year-old girl pulled the woman’s hair. The victims received medical attention at the scene.

The teenagers were taken into custody and charged with assault. The names of the defendants were not released publicly by the police.

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The woman, who identified herself as Nina to local media outlet Fox 32, told the station she was two weeks pregnant when she and her husband were attacked and she eventually lost the baby.

“We believe in faith, and this was not meant to be,” she told the outlet. “So we don’t know why this happened to us.”

According to the report, Nina recalled being pepper-sprayed, kicked and punched by the perpetrators. At one point, they even held her husband down and told Nina to run away. The attack, she added, was random and they were not robbed.

“I was wearing, like, a beautiful dress and high heels,” she explained to the news station. “I was on a date with my husband and they were dragging my dress across the floor and saying something like, ‘The street belongs to us. You can’t just dance around in your little dress.’ And they said things that just didn’t make sense to me because they don’t know me personally.”

The investigation into the incident is still ongoing.

Taylor Ardrey is a news reporter for USA TODAY. Reach her at [email protected]

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