CHICAGO (WLS) -- A 72-year-old woman said the man who attacked her as she walked into a South Side hospital is still on the loose Thursday night.
Verbalean Bell said she was hit, kicked and punched by a man at Jackson Park Hospital Thursday afternoon. She said the man then took her watch and ran off.
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Bell said the head of hospital security came out and tracked the man down, but only brought back her watch. She was told the man who attacked her is a patient of the hospital's mental health facility.
"They said they couldn't press charges on him because he is a mental patient. They would violate his rights. But what about my rights?" she said.
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The hospital would not comment on the incident. Bell said she wants to press charges against the man.