CHICAGO (WLS) — A Chicago man accused of attacking ladies no less than 5 instances within the final three years pleaded not responsible to the costs Wednesday.
Chakib Mansour Khodja, 36, an Algerian citizen who has solely lived in Chicago for 4 years, working as a limo driver earlier than his arrest.
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He was beforehand ordered detained, pending trial.
Khodja, who lived along with his spouse, was arrested at O’Hare Airport in April, as he returned from a visit to his native Algeria.
Chicago Police Division Supt. Larry Snelling and Prepare dinner County State’s Lawyer Eileen O’Neill Burke mentioned his seize introduced 5 separate investigations involving sexual violence in opposition to ladies, going again three years, to a detailed.
CPD introduced costs Monday in a sequence of alleged sexaul assault in Logan Sq. and Lakeview.
“This man was a violent, serial predator who actually went out attempting to find his victims,” O’Neill Burke mentioned. “It was solely via the dogged police work. They did not quit. They stored investigating for 3 years and so they discovered him.”
In accordance with court docket paperwork, all the incidents Khodja is charged in befell in Chicago’s Lakeview and Logan Sq. neighborhoods between Might 2022 and February 2025.
The alleged assaults befell on the following places within the early morning hours:
- A 36-year-old girl was attacked Might 7, 2022 within the 2000-block of North Humboldt Boulevard in Logan Sq., Chicago police mentioned.
- A 21-year-old girl was attacked July 15, 2022 within the 800-block of West Wellington Avenue in Lakeview, CPD mentioned.
- A 36-year-old girl was attacked Jan. 18, 2025 within the 2800-block of West Bloomingdale Avenue in Logan Sq., police mentioned.
- A 21-year-old girl was attacked Jan. 22, 2025 within the 2800-block of North Central Park Avenue in Logan Sq., CPD mentioned.
- A 21-year-old girl was attacked Feb. 2, 2025 within the 2600-block of North Troy Avenue, police mentioned.
The MOs differ and embody every thing from mendacity in look forward to his victims within the lobbies of their house buildings to approaching them on the road from behind. And, in a single case, he allegedly colluded with others to supply a trip residence to a lady leaving a bar after which attacked her within the again seat of the automobile.
“These ladies survived one thing that’s horrible and horrible. And it is one thing they may proceed to stay with for the remainder of their days,” Snelling mentioned. “I need to acknowledge the energy and resilience of those survivors who have been traumatized by these horrific crimes and actions.”
Khodja, who is claimed to have used a knife to subdue no less than two of his victims, is now charged with 18 felony counts, together with aggravated prison sexual assault with a weapon, aggravated prison sexual abuse with a weapon, aggravated prison sexual assault inflicting bodily hurt, aggravated armed kidnapping, aggravated prison sexual abuse inflicting bodily hurt, aggravated kidnapping and inflicting hurt, illegal restraint, tried aggravated battery and strangulation with a harmful instrument, tried kidnapping, tried residence invasion and public indecency. His DNA, prosecutors say, has linked him to 4 of the 5 instances.
“Immediately, the town is safer. Immediately, each single girl within the metropolis, each single man who has a spouse, a mom, a daughter, a sister ought to all be respiratory a sigh of reduction,” O’Neill Burke mentioned.
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