This week, police arrested a man who they say raped a woman in her Williamsburg apartment last Saturday morning. Laye Kaba, 31, has been charged with rape, burglary, stalking, sexual abuse, strangulation, unlawful imprisonment and menacing. But Kaba is now claiming that the 23-year-old victim "asked him to have sex with her.”
Kaba, who has more than 20 prior arrests, allegedly followed the woman into her Kent Avenue apartment building early last Saturday and then sexually assaulted her. But he claims it was a much more altruistic encounter: he told police he saw her walking home “swerving from side to side," and after she dropped her bag and spilled its contents, he escorted her home. Once there, he claims she invited him in; the Post says Kaba claims that “she told him he was a bastard for not having sex with her.”
“The defendant states that he took out a condom,” said Assistant District Attorney Ileane Spinner during his arraignment yesterday. “They began to have sex and then she screamed.” His defense attorney added: “He denies that there was anything that was forcible and he left long before the cops got there."
The victim says she did let him walk her home, but once they got to her lobby, Kaba tried to rape her. The woman’s landlord called 911 after he saw the attack on a security camera.
