Family wants answers after girl, 11, is allegedly sexually abused on her way home from school Thursday

Lissy Wakefield, right, mother of an 11-year-old girl who was allegedly sexually abused on Chicago’s South Side last week, weeps before the start of a news conference outside police headquarters on Oct. 11, 2022.

According to family members, police have since let the person go. On Tuesday, the girl’s mother, grandparents and community members demanded police find the alleged abuser. She said she sent her mother a photo of the person that community members had apprehended. The grandmother, in turn, showed the picture to the girl, who broke down crying. “We had to hold her,” said the maternal grandmother.“I’m not accepting that. I will not accept that. I’m gonna keep going and keep going till we get some type of justice because this is not fair,” she said. “We’re not gonna let them push this under the rug.

Lutia Payne Midcalf, center, the grandmother of an 11-year-old girl who was allegedly sexually assaulted last week, speaks outside Chicago police headquarters on Oct. 11, 2022.

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