More NYPD Foot Patrols Demanded After Fort Greene Rape

Community members and lawmakers asked the NYPD to increase its presence in Fort Greene after a doctor was raped on Thursday morning. City Councilwoman Letitia James said more foot patrols are needed in the community and added that more recruits should be sent to the "understaffed 88th Precinct." James also said, "We will find this criminal."

According to the Post, the 30-year-old woman was "dragged under a Fort Greene stoop and raped after stepping out of the subway" around 6 a.m. The attack occurred near the corner of St. Felix and Fulton Streets, which is just a few blocks from Brooklyn Hospital—as well as a number of subway stations and Long Island University. The Post also reports, "The thug, who covered his face with a scarf and was wearing a hat, grabbed his victim from behind and said he had a gun. He pulled her beneath the stairwell of a brownstone and raped her, cops said, then snatched her bag before escaping."

The woman went to Brooklyn Hospital after the attack and was treated there. The police description of the suspect is a black male, with a Nigerian accent, who was wearing a dark scarf and clothing. The Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action Network is offering a $5,000 reward for the arrest and indictment of a suspect. The 88th Precinct had 7 reported rapes; there have been concerns there's a crime wave in the neighborhood.

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By Jen Chung in News on January 24, 2009 8:30 AM

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ganghiscon

Where's Al Sharpton? Oh, there he is.

FelixtheCat & Christine Quinn'

Animals don't rape, don't molest their children, It is HUMANs.

NannyState

Ha! "Animals don't rape". Yeah, I've never seen a dog in heat just mount the nearest bitch without asking permission first...

chickblao

this is nyc son, the real nyc

QM

Thats around the corner from Brooklyn Tech.

hanuman

I really feel for the young lady. Early in the morning, on the way to work, how often have you worried about a loved one doing the exact same thing? I really hope they get this scum off the streets.

Billiamsburg

Animals. Just listened to the NPR story on the Congo 'rape as war tactic' strategy too. How do they even do that? Like it must take some animlaistic, sub-human primitive deformed brain to become aroused at the idea of rape.

Maybe as our city enters this financial depression, in order to keep talented people like this doctor in the city we need to eliminate the welfare and free housing we are providing to people like her rapist.

thefacts

The European Bosnian Serbs used the same 'rape as war tactic'.

The Russians used it against Berliners in the days after WW 2

US forces raped in Vietnam and in the Pacific campaign.

Are the Europeans and Americans animals too, or just Africans?

Gothamist readers awaits your erudite response.

JacqueMehoff

The Japs used it just for the heck of it.

don't know if Mongo used it in blazing saddles

but one interviewee used it twice.

thefacts

Right, the Nips used it and that A-rab Sadaam Hussein used it too.

Let's not leave anyone out. Picking on the Africans just ain't fair.

MFer

And if the police catch him, please don't shove a baton up his ass.

FelixtheCat & Christine Quinn'

unless there was videos or any witness, the chances are slim that he will be caught. I do hope they caught this rapist. I hope this woman recover as much as possible. My sincere hopes for her well physical and emotional well being.

omoomota

what hideousness! this guy should be dealt severely with:attacking a public servant!

this is particularly annoying to me, being a doctor myself.

BUT, I am curious about the description:what is a 'Nigerian' accent?

Being a Nigerian, I wonder which of the tens or hundreds of accents traceable to the over 350 tribes in Nigeria the victim identified?

My heart goes out to the victim, but how did she identify a Nigerian accent?

OR is every African/black now a Nigerian?

thefacts

I immediately wondered the same thing and thought how would a Nigerian be easily distinguished from, say, a Kenyan. It's gratifying that even a Nigerian would have the same doubts.