Man who escaped electronic monitoring while awaiting trial for a series of violent CTA robberies: Molested 11-year-old girl
According to court reporting by Region News Source, the sexual assault case began less than three weeks after Credit went AWOL when a woman reported her 11-year-old daughter missing from Chicago.
Last year, prosecutors asked Judge David Kelly to keep 21-year-old Davaughn Credit in jail pending trial on allegations he participated in a violent cross-town robbery spree in Chicago. But Kelly, who earned a statistically-proven reputation as the most defendant-friendly judge in the Cook County court’s pretrial division, sent Credit home on an ankle monitor.
Credit allegedly escaped from electronic monitoring last month, but he resurfaced this week in Jasper County, Indiana, where officials say he molested a young girl he met online.
The mother told police the girl left home without permission and that Life360 tracking data placed the child’s phone in Rensselaer, Indiana, the news outlet reported. Family members allegedly told police they suspected the girl was with Credit.
The girl’s adult sibling found her in Rensselaer on the evening of November 22. The affidavit says the child appeared “either high or intoxicated,” and she was taken to Comer Children’s Hospital for medical evaluation, Region News Source reported.
