[PJMEDIA] St. Louis resident Alicia Clarke says she feels as if she has been "failed by the system" and is now "not feeling safe," and she has good reason to feel this way. After she was savagely beaten and stabbed by her neighbor, her attacker walked free. The court considered it decisive that he has an IQ of 49. He is also a Moslem migrant, which may explain both the reluctance to prosecute him and the scant and incomplete coverage this incident has received.St. Louis’ KSDK reported Monday that Clarke went out for a run near her home; when she returned, her cell phone was missing. Tracking it with Find My iPhone to her neighbor’s backyard, she went to get it, and told her neighbor, "I know you did this and I’m calling the police!" At that point the neighbor, whom KSDK describes only as a "6-foot teen," attacked her.
"He knocked me down, pulling my hair, kicking," Clarke recounted. When he finally stopped the attack, Clarke called the police. But then he returned: "I am on the phone with St. Louis police dispatch," she said, "making my way to my backdoor, when he comes back with a weapon. He is on top of me. There was blood everywhere. I was literally fighting for my life at that point."
And it gets worse. Alicia Clarke’s sister, Andrea Clarke Flatley, wrote on Facebook that the attacker gave his sister a broken nose, and that Alicia Clarke now also has “staples in her head and stitches to the puncture wound under her eye” as a result of the attack. Flatley noted that the attacker, whom she named as Hassan, “is a 15 year old refugee from Somalia who lives with his family. He is 6’ and approx 175lbs, much larger than my sister. He has broken into Alicia’s car 3 different times and broken into another neighbor’s house. The police were involved every single time and reported that nothing could be done since he was a minor. Surely this time would be different, though.”
It wasn’t. Because Hassan has an IQ is 49, he was found incompetent to defend himself. The prosecutor in charge of the case, Sakina Ahmad, then formally dismissed the charges.
| Robert Spencer does these reports for PJ Media periodically, in between his projects for Jihad Watch. They give a sense of what our betters here in America think we ought not know about on this particular subject. |