Mother of two from Missouri told WDAF-TV Last week, she said, she struggled with an intruder during a sexual assault while her daughters were upstairs, and a rescuing police officer had to pull the attacker away.
Sara Bomarito told the station that a man followed her two daughters into her home after they finished playing outside last Monday in Lee’s Summit, about 30 minutes southeast of Kansas City.
“I wanted to set myself on fire. I wanted to be clean. I wanted all those things…”
“‘Hey, I think you’re in the wrong house.’ That’s what I said to him,” Bomarito recalled to WDAF, adding, “I said, ‘Hey, I think you’re in the wrong house. ‘I think there is,’ he said.
The intruder refused to leave, but Bomarito was able to get him outside, lock the door and call 911, police said.
But she told WDAF that the intruder still refused to leave.
“He went to my front door and rang the bell incessantly, over and over again, just banging,” Bomarito recalled at the police station.
Investigators told WDAF that Khalil Cooper burst through another door and began sexually assaulting Bomarito while her two daughters and their friend were upstairs.
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The department said Bommarito was also on the phone with a 911 dispatcher and the entire attack was recorded.
WDAF said Bomarito struggled with his attacker, and arriving officers had to separate him and struggle with him until help arrived.
“The outcome of what happened to me was very different because the officer who came in through the side door did not wait. He did not wait for backup,” Bomarito told the station.
She added to WDAF, “The 911 caller, the dispatcher said, ‘You’re safe now, Sarah. You’re handcuffed.'”
In addition to robbery, Cooper was charged with three felonies, including two counts of sodomy or attempted sodomy, the department said, adding that he was being held in jail without bail.
WDAF also noted Bommarito’s warning to women who may find themselves in such a frightening situation. “Don’t wash your hands, don’t wash your body before you do something to destroy evidence. I wanted to set myself on fire. I wanted to be clean. I wanted all those things. And we have to fight not to do that, because it destroys the evidence, so we have to fight back.”
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