Two teens charged in New Year’s Eve attack on Highland Park woman

Two teens are charged with robbing and sexually assaulting a Highland Park woman near the Congress Theatre on New Year’s Eve, Chicago Police announced Tuesday.

Terrance M. Ford, 15, and Aamwar W. Barbour, 16, are charged as adults with kidnapping, robbery and aggravated criminal sexual assault in the brutal attack on the 18-year-old woman.

The suspects are each held on $750,000 bond, authorities said. The teens were officially charged by the Cook County state’s attorney’s office early Tuesday morning.

The woman was beaten into a coma and sexually assaulted hours after she tried to attend a performance at the theater at 2135 N. Milwaukee Ave. on the city’s northwest side.

She had been turned away at the theater door because she lacked proper identification, authorities said, then went to a restaurant on Milwaukee Avenue about 9:30 p.m. where she met at least three people.

The woman left with them, authorities said, but she was found a short time later unconscious on a lawn on the 2100 block of North Rockwell Avenue. She was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center following the attack.

Several teens were taken into custody after the attack and tested, but only Ford and Barbour were charged by prosecutors Tuesday, authorities said.