Beaten ‘Girl X’ Leaves Hospital
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A 10-year-old girl whose beating six months ago shocked even veteran police investigators went home from the Schwab Rehabilitation Hospital in Chicago. Later this summer, the child, known as “Girl X” and never publicly identified, will go to the Illinois Center for Rehabilitation and Education, officials said. She was found near death, after being assaulted, beaten and forced to drink roach poison at Chicago’s Cabrini-Green housing project.
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