May 27--A Chicago man has been charged with sexually assaulting a woman he met online two years ago, according to prosecutors.
Timothy Reliford, 32, was ordered held in lieu of $250,000 by Judge James Brown at the Leighton Criminal Court Building.
According to prosecutors, the woman, who was 18 years old at the time, met and the man met in May 2014 on the Tagged website where Reliford identified himself as Maurice Jordan.
The two then began having online conversations on the Tagged website and exchanged cell phone numbers.
On June 10, 2014 Reliford and the victim met at Union Station. After meeting, they walked to a Brown Line CTA station and got on a train together. Reliford got off the train and the woman stayed on and went home.
Five days after their meeting, Reliford contacted the woman and asked her to go to his apartment. The woman agreed to go to his home but to tell him that she no longer wanted the man to contact her.
After the woman entered the man's apartment on the 100 block of West Division Street the man blocked her as she tried to leave, according to prosecutors. The man then threw the woman onto a bed and ordered her to disrobe which she refused to do, said prosecutors.
The man then sexually assaulted her and she managed to leave the man's home. She then managed to get to St. Mary's Hospital where a criminal sexual assault kit was taken.
Reliford was arrested on May 25 and charged.
