$1 Million Bail For Cabdriver Charged With Sexually Assaulting Passenger

UPDATE

Batrony, 55, of Evanston, was ordered held on $1 million bond Monday on charges of kidnapping and sexually abusing a 24-year-old female customer.

Details of the alleged attack emerged at Batrony's bail hearing. Sometime after 11:30 p.m. Friday, the victim, who was from out of town, became separated from her friend near Clark and Fullerton. Hailing a cab, she asked to be taken to Clark and Diversey. At some point after getting in, she fell asleep, according to a Fox Chicago report of the hearing:

Fred Batrony, 55, forced the victim to spit in his face and rub his nipples after driving her to a "forest type" area near a highway late Friday night, Cook County prosecutors said. Batrony then sexually attacked the victim and sucked on her toes and feet before asking her where she wanted to go, assistant state's attorney George Canellis said. He then took her to Clark and Diversey, the intersection she had asked him to drive to when he picked her up at Clark and Fullerton.

The victim remembered enough information about Batrony and his cab to identify him to police, leading to his Saturday morning arrest, prosecutors said.

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CHICAGO (AP) -- Authorities have charged a Chicago cabdriver with attacking a female passenger in his taxi.

The Chicago Police News Affairs office says prosecutors charged 55-year-old Fred Batrony of Evanston on Sunday with kidnapping and criminal sexual abuse.

Police say a 24-year-old woman hailed Batrony's cab shortly before midnight Friday at Clark Street and Fullerton Ave. and asked him to drive her to an address less than a mile away. The woman told officers Batrony instead drove her to a secluded area, where he attacked her.

After Batrony released the woman, she hailed a police car and gave a detailed description of the driver and his car.

-ASSOCIATED PRESS

Comments

[mick7191]

That is sick on so many levels.

[captainslizz3]

this is an awful story to hear and i dont want to sound harsh....b­ut she should NOT be passing out in a cab late at night anyway.

[cdrach]

chicks on the north side at that time of night prefer to have some effeminate metrosexual that they picked up at Murphy's to do that kind of stuff to them in a dirty apartment

[AuntiepoppyCock]

'chicks.' First you brag about dupage county then you come in here justifying an attempted rape. At least a woman on the north side can make the choice to be with the metro male from murphy's instead of him date raping her in a dirty cab.

[KMan1]

What is wrong with you?

[KMan1]

WTH? Goodness not even taking a cab is safe! Thank goodness the young woman wasn't killed. Hopefully this is the right person.