Good Samaritan Law Violated: 2 Men Do Nothing as Teen Girl Beaten Up on CTA Blue Line

CHICAGO, IL - A 19-year-old DePaul University student says she was beaten and robbed on a CTA Blue Line Train Thursday morning as her attackers made off with her iPhone.

Two men were on the same car of the train around 10 a.m. Thursday near the UIC-Halsted stop when Jessica Hughes says she was pushed to the floor by a man, who was with a woman when they left with the phone. The two uninvolved men remained that way.

“It’s just shameful, like she said,” Richard Amador, Hughes’ father, told CBS. “Definitely, I would jump in and help, no matter what the consequences, because it’s another human being.”

Hughes sustained a black eye and bruises to the head from the attack, which included the man demanding the phone when Hughes was listening to her headphones.

“He jumps up from his chair, and goes on top of me, and asks me for my phone, but my phone was in my pocket, and I had my headphones on, so he was yanking at my headphones, and then he pushed me to the floor, and then started beating on my head,” she said.

Hughes also said the man bit her on the hand.

During the attack, she called repeatedly for help.

“They just watched,” she said of the two bystanders. “I feel like people just don’t want to get involved.”

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