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Rape suspect's probation officer suspended

A probation officer was suspended Tuesday after a teenager on home electronic monitoring was able to leave his home earlier this month and, authorities allege, sexually assault a pregnant Chicago State University student.

WMAQ-TV in Chicago reported Cook County Juvenile Probation Department director Rose Marie Golden said electronic monitoring procedures were not followed before the Sept. 10 attack. Authorities say 17-year-old Aaron Parks forced the 24-year-old victim into her car and told her drive to a nearby alley, where she was assaulted and forced into the trunk. The victim was able to escape, and Parks was arrested two days later.

Parks, who is charged as an adult, is being held without bond on aggravated criminal sexual assault, aggravated kidnapping and armed robbery charges.

A judge confined Parks to his mother's home after he was charged as a juvenile in the July carjacking of a woman who was forced into her car at gunpoint but escaped unharmed. Pak He was allowed to leave home only to attend school, seek medical treatment, or attend religious services.

Probation officials say all electronic monitoring records will be audited to determine if the incident involving Parks is isolated or if changes are required to make certain juveniles under court supervision are following conditions of their release.

Juvenile probation officials say the department daily monitors about 250 people in the electronic monitoring program.

Chicago teen charged as adult in sexual assault

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