Reporter Volume 26, No.20 March 9, 1995

A grand jury investigation has begun and charges could be filed soon
in connection with a vicious assault two years ago that left a UB
student with permanent injuries.
	The young woman, who has been publicly identified only as Kim,
still suffers  hearing loss, continued weakness in one of her arms and
has trouble reading as a result of her injuries. 
	Authorities believe a man who already is in jail for another
crime is responsible for the fall 1992 attack on the young woman. The
victim, who was 21 and at UB junior at the time, was beaten into
unconsciousness and may have been raped in the Sept. 5, 1992 attack,
which occurred in the first-floor Lisbon Avenue flat she shared with
two other UB students.
	The victim had returned home about midnight from a party,
police say, when someone apparently broke into her apartment in the
early morning hours and brutally attacked her. She was found the next
morning, unconscious and lying in her bed in a pool of blood, by her
roommates, who had returned home several hours after the assault.
	The attack left the victim in critical condition. She remained
unconscious for several days, and weeks later was able to speak only a
few words. A native of Long Island, she was transferred to a long-term
care facility in Philadelphia, and within a year was back home with
her parents, where she attended community college and continued to
receive physical therapy.