A second woman came forward on Monday,Newport Pleasure after visiting a Chicago bar where security guards were recently accused of standing by as another woman was sexually assaulted.
Liz Capra said she was sexually assaulted after having a drink at Chicago's El Hefe bar in 2014. She said she blacked out after having one drink there and found herself pounding on her front door when she gained consciousness later.
"All of my credit cards were stolen, my phone was stolen, they were used for thousands of dollars. The next thing I remember is running home to my house, which was over 4 miles away," Capra told reporters on Monday.
Capra said she filed a police report and her family took her to a hospital, Newport box 100s menthol cigarettes where a rape kit and a toxicology screening confirmed she had been drugged and sexually assaulted. She filed a lawsuit against the bar on Monday, accusing it of negligence and willful and wanton conduct after seeing being assaulted there.
No arrests have been made in either case.
"I’m coming forward now, after seeing the video of Jane Doe, absolutely horrified by what happened to her," Capra said. "I know it wasn’t an isolated incident, and I know that it’s happened to other women, and I can’t sit back and live with myself knowing that I’m not doing anything to stop it."
The other alleged victim, who is being represented by the same law firm as Capra Newport 100s Box, has not been named publicly.