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   CHICAGO — Prosecutors say a 15-year-old Chicago girl who accepted a ride   
   from a stranger in December was drugged, kidnapped, and repeatedly raped by   
   the man, who locked her inside his basement apartment for nearly five months.   
      
   Chicago police officers freed the girl last week after she found a piece of   
   mail bearing the apartment’s address and called 911, officials said as they   
   filed charges in the case.   
      
   Derek Swift, a 48-year-old man who has been arrested 52 times in his life, was   
   detained as a safety risk by Judge Susana Ortiz.   
      
   The girl, who spent her 16th birthday in captivity, was walking near her South   
   Side home in December when Swift pulled up and offered her a ride, Assistant   
   State’s Attorney Anne McCord said, according to a transcript of his   
   detention hearing.   
      
   After initially declining his offer, the girl relented because he kept asking.   
   Once inside the car, Swift offered her alcohol and pills but refused to say   
   what the drugs were, according to McCord. Again feeling pressured, the girl   
   took the pills and then    
   lost consciousness.   
      
   She woke up naked in the bedroom of Swift’s basement apartment, and he   
   allegedly prevented her from leaving.   
      
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   Derek Swift (Chicago Police Department)   
      
   “She remained in that apartment for the following months,” McCord said.   
   The Chicago Police Department issued a missing person bulletin about the girl   
   four weeks after she disappeared.   
      
   Month after month, Swift came and went from the apartment, bringing her food   
   from a gas station and sometimes leaving her alone for days, according to   
   McCord. He brought alcohol home and made her take more pills.   
      
   “When she would refuse to take the pills, he would grab her face and shove   
   the pills into her mouth,” the veteran prosecutor alleged.   
      
   McCord said the apartment doors each had two locks, but the girl could only   
   open one of the locks.   
      
   “Every time he came back in the apartment, he would, what she termed, rape   
   her,” McCord stated. On two occasions, he forced her to take pregnancy   
   tests, McCord said. Following her release, a test revealed that she is not   
   currently pregnant.   
      
   Swift gave the girl a phone, which he used to check on her, but warned that he   
   would kill her if she tried to leave and would kill anyone she tried to call,   
   said McCord. He searched her phone when he came home to ensure that she had   
   not made any calls.   
      
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   Transparency Fund.   
      
   Finally, on April 29, the girl saw an address on a piece of mail in the   
   apartment and used the phone Swift gave her to call the police. CPD officers   
   removed her from the apartment and took her to a hospital. A search of the   
   phone showed no call activity    
   other than between the girl and Swift, McCord said.   
      
   Swift surrendered to police hours after officers removed her from the   
   apartment. He allegedly admitted to picking the girl up, although he believed   
   she was 20 years old, and claimed that their sexual relationship was   
   consensual.   
      
   Assistant Public Defender Joseph Crawford, representing Swift during the   
   detention hearing, said Swift initially picked the girl up because “he   
   believed that he was giving her a place to stay after she had no other place   
   to live.   
      
   While Crawford said the girl told Swift she was 20, McCord said the girl told   
   him she was 16.   
      
      
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