The following story contains a description of a sexual assault and may be upsetting for readers.
Feeling better as she recovered from the difficult birth of her daughter, the West Side woman decided to take the 6-month-old girl for a late afternoon walk on the nearby Camp Chase Trail.
She was pushing the stroller on the path when she was confronted by a 16-year-old boy, armed with a handgun, who stole her cellphone and fled. Minutes later, he returned, forcing the 35-year-old woman off the path and raping her at gunpoint. I could potentially comprehend the motives behind a robbery, even though I had to console my daughter’s cries while he put a gun to my head, the victim said Thursday in a Franklin County Common Pleas courtroom. But she called it unconscionable that the robber would return to rape her while her daughter screamed for her and cried when I couldn’t respond.