A Massachusetts teenager charged with raping and murdering his teacher last year after following her into a bathroom followed a chillingly similar plan when he attacked a female jail counselor last month in the youth detention center where he was being held,
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In the second alleged attack, Philip Chism, 15, made sure he wasn't being watched, took off his footwear to muffle his footsteps, then crouched down as he made his way along a corridor before following the 29-year-old woman into the locker room at Metro Youth Services facility in Boston on June 2, prosecutor Mark Zanini told a judge in Boston Juvenile Court
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Chism, with a pencil in his hand, pushed the woman against the wall in the bathroom, choked her, and then hit her in the head with his fists, he said. He then stabbed her in the back with the pencil.
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The victim was trying to scream but it was ineffective because her airway was closed by virtue of the defendant's strangling her,
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After getting Chism's hand off her neck, she screamed and other facility workers pulled Chism away from her
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She suffered injuries to her face, jaw, neck and back, and got a hole in the back of her shirt that was the same size as a pencil, which was found on the floor
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Jail guards reported that he was acting normally just moments before the alleged attack and they had no indication he was planning violence.
He has since been moved to a different detention facility.
He was ordered held on $250,000 bail in the attack on the youth worker on charges of attempted murder by strangulation, assault with intent to murder, kidnapping, and two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.
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handcuffed Chism hung his head throughout the proceeding and did not speak other than to say 'yes' when the judge asked him if he understood that he was not allowed to have any contact with the worker or any witnesses in the case. He didn't enter a plea. His mother was also in court.
Chism is being charged as a youthful offender in the Boston case, meaning the proceedings in juvenile court are open and expose him to potential adult penalties.
Chism's attorney, Denise Regan, did not challenge the bail or conditions of bail. She asked that her client be excused from his next scheduled court appearance on September 19 because of the stress it causes him.