KIDNAPPING/SEXUAL ASSAULT IN CHICAGO:
Nigerian Yoruba Blood Brothers Charged for raping a-15year old Girl …Hit Victim’s head with handgun
- Kidnapping happened in 400 block E.83rd Street * Forced to have sex with six people
- Court records show DNA connected Taiwo Animashaun to a condom recovered at the crime scene
BY OLIVIA THOMPSON/CRIME REPORTER, CHICAGO
WHAT could have warranted three blood brothers-the Animashauns residing in Chicago to have taken laws into their hands by throwing decency to the winds and sexually assaulting, kidnapping an innocent 15 year old girl in company of other three criminally-minded ‘friends’?
Their criminal exploits
Naija Standard reportedly learnt that these three Nigerian brothers were arrested for kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl recently.
Aziz Animashaun, 22, Isiaka Animashaun, 25, and Taiwo Animashaun, 26, were arrested and all charged with aggravated criminal sexual assault and kidnapping for the attack that a prosecutor said happened around 8:30 p.m. on the ‘black day.’
Chicago’s state Attorney position
In the narration of Assistant State’s Attorney Jennifer Hamelly, she said the teenager was taking care of her brother that night and went to take out the trash when a black SUV filled with five or six people pulled up. Hamelly said Aziz Animashaun told the girl to get in, but she refused. The prosecutor said the youngest of the three men hit the girl in the head with a 19th-century style handgun. She said the girl was carried to the car and seated next to Isiaka. Chicago police said the kidnapping happened in the 400 block of E. 83rd Street.
Prosecutor narrates what transpired
Then the prosecutor, Naija Standard learnt said they took the girl to an unknown location where court documents show she was forced to have sex with five or six people. During the assault, Hamelly said the girl heard a foreign language she associated with Nigeria because of her experience with a teacher who spoke a similar language. At some point after the attack, Hamelly said, the girl was left alone and escaped. Hamelly said the girl saw the black SUV when she ran away, cried out for help and was taken to a hospital.
Court records show Condom associated with blood brothers
Court records show DNA connected Taiwo to a condom recovered at the crime scene. They also show the girl identified Aziz as the man who hit her with the gun, and Isiaka as another man who took part in the assault. The prosecutor also said a gun similar to the one used in the attack was recovered from the Animashauns.
Two of the Animashaun brothers, all of whom live in the 500 block of E. 83rd, shook their heads as Hamelly explained the details of the case to Cook County Judge Israel Desierto when they appeared in bond court Sunday.
Desierto set bail for Aziz, Isiaka and Taiwo at $400,000, $250,000 and $500,000, respectively.