Woman Sexually Assaulted in Bay Ridge

Police are looking for a rape suspect who attacked a woman in Brooklyn yesterday morning. According to WABC 7, the victim, 29, was on her way to work when she "was surprised by a man near her apartment building along Fort Hamilton Parkway around 8:40 a.m. He struck the victim over the head with a screwdriver and raped her in an alley." A neighbor told WCBS 2, "Basically this morning when I left, the victim, she was on the first floor, and she was really hysterical, and explained that someone attacked her in the basement... A lot of people think Bay Ridge is safe, but you're not safe anywhere you go." A sketch was released of the suspect, who is described as a white man in his 30s or 40s, between 5'8" and 6', 180 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes.

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By Jen Chung in News on September 18, 2008 7:47 AM

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handsomedevil

A neighbor told me it was Ft. Ham & 93rd.

zodak

holy crap! this is awful news, i can't believe it happened in broad daylight.

Steven

Rapists should have their penis cut off. An innocent women is now going to be scare for life.

dgs277

why is the sketch of a teenage or 20-something man of color?

ides_of_march

I think any woman with a clean record should be allowed to carry a derringer pistol in the city. After a few scumbags get their balls shot off or a piece of lead between the eyes, the rape statistics will plummet.

unsunghiro

that drawing doesn't look like a white man in his 30's-40's.

mmlanglie

I second that yikes. I walk to work every day from the N Fort Hamilton stop to about 10 blocks to the south. And I start work at 9am...anyone know the cross street of where this happened? Awful.

Splicer

One more time with feeling: catch him, write "child molester" on his forehead with a Sharpie, take him to Rikers. The end.

UpperEastSighed

She wasn't just sexually assaulted; she was raped. It's not the time to use a euphemism.

I live a few blocks away from the attack, and this is the first I've heard of it. Yikes.