Man Charged With Groping Woman on Loyola University's Campus

A man has been charged with groping a woman on Loyola University's campus in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood earlier this month, police announced Friday. 

Soroush Aflaki, 22, of the 6900 block of North Greenwich Avenue, was charged with two felony counts of aggravated battery in a public place, according to a release from Chicago Police. 

Aflaski was identified as the man who inappropriately touched a woman as she was walking on campus in the 6300 block of North Winthrop on Sept. 19, according to police. 

The attack is one four reported between Sept. 6 and 19, police said in an earlier community alert, detailing three assaults against students and one against a faculty member.

Tatjana Williams-Jones, 19, said she was attacked while walking home from the library before 1 a.m. on Sept. 7 on the 6300 block of North Winthrop.

“Somebody came up behind me on a bicycle and started groping me,” she said.

Williams-Jones said she fought the attacker off and that he looked a little older than her.

“He looked Middle Eastern, he had a very heavy Arabic accent, I’m guessing, and so he was like ‘it’s different in my country, you can do this,’” she said. “I was so in shock I didn’t know what to do so I just grabbed and tried to like throw him to the ground.”

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