Once the driver pulled the man off Brenda, he then took him off the bus and waited for police, NBC 5 reports. … Thank God the bus driver ran into the bus dragged him off off of her." "At this point all I could hear was this young girl sobbing and begging him to stop while simultaneously hearing the other passengers yell to the bus driver (he was still trying to get a hold of the police) 'SHE IS PREGNANT!!! HE IS BEATING HER UP!' I became absolutely frantic, there was no way I would be able to pull this man off of her. I even said 'PLEASE STOP HITTING HER!! PLEASE!' HE DID NOT. I don't know why but I went directly to him and I began screaming, begging and yelling at him to stop. HE CONTINUED!! He was beating her with closed fists and with both hands. I could hear her screaming over and over and over. "At this point she went into a fetal position while trying to cover her face. And iPhone users: Check out Patch's new app.)Īs the man walked from the back of the bus to get off, he stopped at the front - which has seating for the elderly and disabled as well as pregnant women - and unexpectedly began beating Brenda, wrote Robles-Favela, who described the violence she witnessed: "All I can hear is her yelling and screaming for him to stop, he continued beating her with a closed fists, I saw people get up & move out the way but there were so many on their phones recording this brutal attack!!! NOT ONE person got up remove this man from beating this young girl. (Get Patch real-time email alerts for the latest news for the South Side and Chicago - or other neighborhoods. According to Robles-Favela, who wrote about the incident on Brenda's GoFundMe page, the CTA driver was dealing with an "unruly passenger," who eventually decided to exit the bus after he was asked to do so earlier. 28, on a CTA bus traveling north in the 4900 block of South Western Avenue, NBC 5 Chicago reports. The unprovoked violence that led to this outpouring of kindness began before 8 a.m. Brenda, for her part, responded to the couple's good deeds by asking them to be her soon-to-be-born son's godparents. Robles-Favela then created an online fundraising campaign for Brenda, agreed to host a baby shower for the teen and even invited this stranger who she now considers family to stay in her and her husband's new home on the West Side. Christina Robles-Favela - an employee at a Beverly assisted living facility who didn't know "Brenda," the victim, before the attack - first provided support for the pregnant woman immediately following the beating by staying by her side and helping her navigate the battery of medical tests and police questions in the wake of what had occurred. She says her daughter is beaten up and bruised - afraid to go to school.In the aftermath of the attack, a 32-year-old woman who witnessed the horrible incident also stepped up. "Something is psychologically wrong with her to be able to do that." The incident is also under police investigation by the DPSCD Police Department." The driver was removed from DPSCD service and may face termination through the bus contractor, Trinity. "A fight occurred (Tuesday) on a contracted Trinity bus involving a student and the driver. Regardless, the bus driver has been suspended, according to this statement from DPSCD: They are wrong for even saying something like that." "How does a grown woman bite a child? Not just the beating part, you bit her in her face."īut, the bus driver says the child refused to sit down and said the child went to the front of the bus and actually swung first. "It was such a vicious attack," Diallo said. "I thought it was a fake video, when the family contacted me last night," said attorney Lillian Diallo.ĭiallo has been hired by the family to represent them and says that the driver also bit the girl in the face during the altercation. Coakley said the girl called the driver out for swearing and that's when she says the driver started hitting her child. It happened this week near the Carver STEM Academy, a Detroit Public School on the city's west side.Īccording to the girl's family, the 12-year-old girl was waving at her brother out of the window of the bus and the driver tapped her on the shoulder and told her 'sit her a- down'. "She is just quiet and she just looks sad." "I don't think she knows how she is," Coakley said.
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