Failure to Prosecute Again

So while Crimesha is taking a bit of heat about the nearly non-existent prosecutions of shoplifting offenders, this is where she ought to be taking a lot more flak from voters:

• A 25-year-old man was denied bail Wednesday on charges he sexually assaulted an 11-year-old girl who was studying at a public library while her mother was at a nearby laundromat in Morgan Park.
  
  Damond Hampton, who had been banned from the library after “bothering” women there several times since May, faced three counts of predatory criminal sexual assault when he appeared for the hearing at the Leighton Criminal Court Building.

Banned? Banned how? Was he asked not to return? To a public building? That isn't a "ban" by any stretch of the imagination. The way you ban someone is you have them arrested, prosecuted and then an actual Judge makes it a condition of bail and/or sentencing to "stay away" from a certain location.

How many times did that happened here?

• A police spokeswoman said Hampton had been banned from the branch prior to the assault due to “his inappropriate behavior with female library patrons.” Prosecutors said Hampton had been accused of “staring at and bothering women” at least seven times since May.

Again, even the police spokesweasel won't say there was an actual legal or judicial order in place "banning" this child rapist from the building, mostly likely because Crimesha and her office would never, under any circumstances, actually prosecute a trespassing charge to a library. Who's going to sign the complaint? A city of Chicago employee? Not likely.

So thanks to a culture of not prosecuting a completely winnable trespassing charge (you were asked to leave, didn't, and the library head signs a complaint and follows up), a child will probably have to undergo years of therapy and bear the mental scars of "progressive justice."