Mestizo Rapist Leaves 15-Year-Old Girl Lying in Pool of Blood and Unable to Speak

ABC Local
January 6, 2014

Luis Pantoja
Luis Pantoja. ‘Detectives believe the girl was hit in the head while walking down the street to grab a bus at Long and Fullerton that would take her to a charter school about six miles away. She was then dragged into Klockowski’s backyard and assaulted. Police found her lying near the back door, bleeding from the back of her head and covered in blood.
She was still wearing a jacket but her pants were off, according to the police report. She was awake “but very lethargic, possibly suffering from hypothermia,” the police report said. Blood was splattered across the yard and down the gangway along the house, the report said.’

A 25-year-old Chicago man has been charged in a sexual assault and beating that left a 15-year-old girl fighting for her life.

Chicago police said Sunday that Luis Pantoja was charged with attempted first-degree murder and aggravated criminal sexual assault in the Belmont-Cragin attack last month.

The girl was found December 17 lying in a pool of blood in the back yard of a home. She was hospitalized in critical condition and was unable to communicate with police until two weeks later.

A resident told the Chicago Sun-Times he was going to sweep the snow from his rear walkway just after 8 a.m. that day and found the girl outside his back door. Blood was pooling in the snow around her head. Her pants had been yanked off. Her shoes were off her feet. She was all but unconscious, moving a little, but saying nothing.

Pantoja, who lives just blocks from the scene of the attack, was arrested on Friday “through the work of Chicago Police Detectives and the Great Lakes Fugitive Task Force,” Chicago police said in a brief statement released on Sunday.

He appeared in Cook County criminal court briefly Sunday, but the bond hearing in his case has been delayed until Tuesday. In the meantime, he’ll be held in the Cook County Jail without bail.