America’s saddest lost soul can no longer SPEAK and spends days hitting herself ‘after years of unspeakable abuse by gangs of men’

Even in a city as filled with human misery and despair as Portland, her story has the power to shock.

The woman, who the Daily Mail is not naming, has almost lost the ability to speak and blurts out an unintelligible garble of noise.

She spends all day bashing herself on the head with her right hand and has been carrying out the act of self-harm for so long that she now has a bald spot to show for it.

Citizen journalist Kevin Dahlgren and other locals told the Daily Mail that the middle-aged woman is regularly accosted by a group of unknown men.

They say she is taken to a nearby motel or apartment, where she is forced to shower, before being subjected to horrific sexual assaults.

Portland residents who know the woman said the group attacks can go on for days before she is dumped back on the streets.

The Daily Mail has contacted Portland Police, who have requested more information about the crimes said to have been committed against the woman. 

When approached by the Daily Mail last week, the woman could barely string a sentence together. 

She managed to ask for a lighter to smoke a cigarette, with Dahlgren saying he fears the woman is also battling severe drug issues. 

According to Dahlgren, other locals have confided in him that the disturbing assaults the woman has been subjected to has happened countless times over the years. 

Clips he has shared of her to his own social media page show her relentlessly attacking her head as she sobs. 

She is known to use crystal meth, with Dahlgren saying he also witnessed her picking up used needles from the street and injecting herself with them. 

‘Of course [it] puts her at high risk of getting HIV or AIDS, it’s one of the saddest cases I’ve ever seen’, he said. 

Dahlgren has been on the ground in the city for decades providing an in-depth take on the problems affecting the area. 

He never leaves home without Narcan saying that he uses the nasal spray to combat overdoses on the streets every other day. 

On a walk around the Old Town area of the city, Dahlgren said those on the streets are hooked on a toxic cocktail of fentanyl cut with Xylazine, a veterinary sedative. 

The potent mixture of the two renders addicts unable to wake up if they are overdosing, with Dahlgren himself watching addicts die every three days he said.

The area was littered with drug users openly smoking drugs, while others prodded at spent veins with hypodermic needles.

Richard, a Cuban migrant, told the Daily Mail that he ended up on the streets after falling on hard times after moving from the country to Seattle.

Prior to speaking he had been in the process of inhaling a bubbling substance from a scrap piece of aluminum. He said he ended up on the streets after losing his job.

Another individual, who wouldn’t give his name, was sweeping up broken glass from the window of an SUV, complaining that a homeless person had just broken into the vehicle five minutes before.

Moments later, three police officers ordered the man to the ground by gunpoint – with cops saying he himself had broken into the vehicle. It remains unclear why the suspect stuck around to clean up his own alleged crime.

Even for Dahlgren, who has seemingly seen it all, the arrest came as a shock to him – laughing off the bizarre situation.   

‘That just tells me he is a ‘good’ criminal, this is just hilarious’, he added.

The arrest was a rare sight, according to Dahlgren, with open crime and drug use a problem in the old downtown area with police lax in doing anything about it, he said.

‘Crime out here is just really common, this is extremely common – you can usually hear the smashes, the police don’t care – they’re not going to stop them’, he added.

Richard White, 56, has been on the streets since August after being pushed out of an assisted living facility over criminal charges held against him.

‘I’ve had to go through this long process to get back into the system, and I just found out today I have a warrant out for my arrest and all my work to get back into assisted living has been an absolute waste as they’re just going to arrest me.’

When asked about the charges against him he called it ‘misdemeanor s***’, saying he was just biding his time before he was picked up by the cops .

He added: ‘I was successful, I had jobs, I did four years in the Marines. I did a lot of stuff for the country, now I have the worst kind of lifestyle.’

Jeff Dickey works with Urban Alchemy, a homeless outreach program, who run a closed off park area designated for the homeless to use. Inside, scores of people lined up for hot drinks and food, with medical teams also available on site.

Dickey said that the city was dealing with the hangover of having effectively legalized personal consumption of all drugs.

A U-turn was performed after woke Democrat Mike Schmidt was booted from his job as Multnomah County District Attorney in 2024.

But Schmidt’s predecessor Nathan Vasquez still faces the after-effects of licentious policies blamed for driving quality of life in Portland off a cliff. 

‘They just overturned it but the ripple effects are still out there, people still openly use them’, adding that around two to three hundred people make use of the program every day.

Dahlgren agreed with him about the decriminalization, adding: ‘What we created over that three year period [of decriminalization], is a whole new generation of addicts. I’ve never seen more drug use in this area.’

Dickey added: ‘People are terrified of the streets out here, a lot of them have been living in trauma for years. There’s no reprieve, there’s no break from the nonsense.’

Former District Attorney Schmidt oversaw the decriminalization of drugs, reducing possession of heroin, fentanyl and meth to the level of a parking ticket.

On the outskirts of the neighborhood, Dahlgren pointed to an underpass area that had recently been blocked up by the city.

People on the streets had been using sledgehammers to break into vacant spaces underneath the roads, sleeping and using drugs inside them.

According to two nearby security workers, the city coroner had been called to the area twice in the last year to pull bodies from the enclosed space.

Due to the deaths, city officials moved to have the area blocked off, with large cinder blocks and metal bars brought in to stop people from gaining entry.

Despite the grim conditions in the small area, the city looks to have turned a corner – with locals saying that the drug use and homelessness had improved slightly since the chaos of the pandemic.

One business owner, who declined to give their name, said: ‘The most I really see now is people standing by the window smoking with the fumes coming in here.

‘Nine out of ten times they will leave, occasionally I’ll have to call security, it’s been a rollercoaster. It definitely was a lot worse, it took a nosedive –  Covid was the final nail in the coffin.

‘But there’s more foot traffic, the area is cleaner and they [the homeless] don’t bother anybody either.’

The business, a coffee shop, requires a worker on the inside to let patrons in who are required to use a doorbell for entry, due to previous issues involving the homeless. 

A similar system is used at other businesses in the area. Some other businesses which remain open appear derelict after using plywood to board up their windows.

The city recorded its highest levels of foot traffic since the pandemic over the summer, in a sign the city is bouncing back slightly.

In a report released in September, officials said that in August the much-maligned downtown area welcomed more than 21.24 million pedestrians. 

That was an increase of 5.6 percent from the same time last year – the busiest it has been since before the pandemic, figures show. 

Much of the improvement has been linked to woke former DA Schmidt being replaced by Nathan Vasquez, who has vowed to clean Portland up. 

Portland was among cities keenest to defund its police department in the wake of George Floyd’s June 2020 murder, with Vasquez also promising to build bridges with the city’s beleaguered cops.  

As President Trump eyes up sending in the National Guard into the city to combat so-called ‘Antifa terrorists’, Dahlgren instead hopes the administration looks to battle what he calls the real problems.

‘I believe the next logical step might be a federal response to the homeless and addiction crisis if my city and others don’t get their crap together.

‘I’m not saying I’m inviting them, I’m saying this is the next natural step’, he added.