A married couple expecting a child was attacked by a group of teenagers in North Chicago during a date night last week, resulting in the tragic loss of their unborn baby.
The couple recounted their story to Fox32 Chicago, sharing photos showing the injuries sustained after a mob of teens in the Streeterville community viciously pushed, kicked and punched them last Friday night:
Nina, who didn’t want to show her face on camera, shared images with FOX 32 showing a chunk of her hair pulled out. During the interview, her eye was still bruised.
Her husband was also viciously attacked by the group, which held him down.
The female victim said the teens told the couple they “own the streets” before beating them, and didn’t try to go for money.
“They didn’t steal anything. They say like, ‘we own the street. We own the street. You can’t walk around.’ I was wearing like a nice dress and heels. Like I was out on the date with my husband, and they dragged my dress on the ground, and they said, like, ‘we own the street. You can’t just walk around prancing in your little dress.’ And they were saying things that just didn’t make any sense to me because they don’t know me personally,” Nina said.
The attack, however, destroyed the couple’s plan to start a family.
Nina said this wasn’t a robbery, and that the teens pepper-sprayed her and kicked her stomach. She was two weeks pregnant and said she found out after the attack that she had lost the baby.
The mom grieved the loss of her baby, saying, “We believe in faith, and it wasn’t meant to be. So, we don’t know why this happened to us.”
Police were reportedly able to nab two teens involved in the assault, a 14-year-old boy and a 17-year-old girl, but others still remain at large.