Byline: WINIFRED YU Staff writer
Most people don't like to walk alone in the streets of the Pine Hills neighborhood anymore.
They bolt their doors, pin their windows and travel in groups. Some women carry Mace and sleep with baseball bats nearby. The police have been besieged with phone calls for security checks in neighborhood homes.
It's all the result of the string of rapes and assaults that has occurred there since last summer.
"The mood is of apprehension," said 11th Ward Alderman Gerald Jennings. "More people are afraid, especially at night."
Since August, seven women have been victims of sexual attacks, most resulting in severe beatings and rape. The most recent rape occurred in the early hours of Wednesday, Nov. 11, when an intruder entered a second- floor apartment …
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