NYPD: More Brooklyn Sex Attacks Fit Groping Pattern, Total Now At 20

After issuing a $12,000 reward for information related to the series of sexual assaults on women in Brooklyn and reporting that a woman was assaulted on Thursday night in Windsor Terrace, the NYPD revealed that another half dozen or so attacks would be added to the already-too-long list. WTF.

Suspect Adolfo Martinez, arrested for a Monday night Sunset Park attack where he allegedly sneaked up behind a woman leaving the subway, grabbed her butt and then ran away, reportedly told cops that he has assaulted women before. So then the NYPD took a look at some other incidents and have added seven more to the known attacks, now making 20 incidents total since March of this year. Here's a list of the attacks from the Post:

-- A 30-year-old woman groped in the station by a man in his 20s who squeezed her breast at 12:30 p.m. March 11.
-- A 25-year-old woman similarly attacked as she was leaving the subway station at 1:30 a.m. June 23, when a man grabbed her breasts.
--A 21-year-old woman attacked in the station March 25 by a man in his early 30s who walked up behind the victim and reached under her dress to grab her buttocks.
-- A 15-year-old girl walking down a flight of stairs at the subway station July 10, when a man came up behind her and grabbed her breast and buttocks.
-- A 26-year-old woman attacked about 9:45 p.m. Thursday in Windsor Terrace, where a man grabbed her crotch.
-- A 37-year-old woman attacked in the station about 11:55 p.m. May 7 , when the sicko snuck up behind her and grabbed her breasts.
-- A 30-year-old woman was targeted at 11:30 p.m. June 18 in the station by a man who lifted her skirt and squeezed her buttocks.

Residents are upset, especially female ones. One woman told the Daily News, "Oh God. It's scary. I moved into this neighborhood six months ago thinking it was safe. It's disconcerting this is going on so close to where I live." Another told WCBS 2, “I think it would have been less scary if it were one man, but since there are like six or eight or 10, it’s very like overwhelming because you don’t know who it is."

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By Jen Chung in News on October 15, 2011 1:50 PM

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robingee

The hell is wrong with these dudes?

nayerr

Ladies: Buy a knife & learn how to use it.

Shmooklyn

Sexual Assaulters: Stop assaulting.

OleS

Or buy a fucking gun

PrettyAmiable

I was thinkin' taser. I've been told that's a bad idea by people who know better and advised me on pepper spray.

Legs

Here's a video of one of the women who was attacked. To the best of my knowledge, she's the first to come forward and allow herself to be interviewed. I'm not seeing her stat listed here but she was attacked in Sunset Park by an Asian man. Seriously horrifying - I hope all of these men get caught and these assaults come to a screeching halt. http://www.nbcnewyork.com/vide...

Joe

The NYPD is too busy beating up bystanders in Wall Street.

PrettyAmiable

Bystanders? I think you mean protesters, who must know that if they're congregating somewhere in large numbers, a police force will need to be present.

Solution: Send a contingent of protesters to fucking Brooklyn every night. Occupy Park Slope. No more tax breaks for the rich? How about no more titties for sexual offenders.

I'm an ideas kind of gal.

nomadnewyork

Not to downplay how horrifying a sexual attack is but I can't remember a time that Brooklyn was really "safe". When I was a kid, even the kids from the Bronx wouldn't go there. I do think that it has gotten a little safer over the past few years but safe is not a word that I would ever apply to Brooklyn.

As a matter of fact, when you are a woman there is no place that is ever really "safe". Self Defense ladies. I took it at Brooklyn Women's Self Defense. I don't know if they are still around, but if they are, I highly recommend them.