The monster who kidnapped the Queens girl, sexually assaulted her and then died in a car crash the next day while being pursued by police still haunts her, her family told The Washington Post.
“It's not a dream. He's in my head,” the 9-year-old girl told relatives of Wayne Noel, the stranger who grabbed her by the hand inside a Key Foods store, told her not to scream and took her away while her grandmother was using the restroom near the grocery store at 213th and Jamaica streets.
Noel, 64, sexually assaulted the girl in his car but only stopped after he realised she was on her period, the girl's family said.
The girl is unable to eat and the whole family is in chaos.
“We're all in shock,” her aunt said.
“I still can't believe it. I can't believe this happened.”
The girl, whose mother lives in another state, is being raised by relatives and calls her grandmother “Mom,” according to her aunt.
“She said he walked up to her, grabbed her hand and forced her to her car,” her aunt recalled.
“As they walked away she tried to say something, make a move, but he shouted in her ear, 'Shut up, be quiet or I'll kill you,'” he said.
“She was so scared. The word she used was 'scared.' She didn't know what to do,” her aunt said, crying as she described her nightmare Thursday night.
According to the aunt, Noel forced the victim to open her car door and “dragged her in by her braids,” before driving her a mile away and attacking her.
“She's just had her first period,” her aunt said.
“She had a pad on. He took her underwear off and he saw it.”
He then drove her to a store, molested her again and then left her on the street.
By then, the old woman was frantically searching.
“They kept calling her on the microphone,” the aunt said of the store's intercom.
“When she came back, her grandmother asked, 'What happened?' And she said, 'Mom, I've been kidnapped.'”
“She told me she still thought he was coming to kill her,” the girl's aunt told The Post.
“I said, this fool is dead now. He can't do anything to you. Nothing is going to happen to you. She said, 'He's in my heart.'
Someone called 911, and the NYPD rushed to the scene and quickly released photos of the suspect and his vehicle.
Detectives spotted Noel in a vehicle at the intersection of 212th Street and Hillside Avenue around 12:30 p.m. Friday and attempted to conduct a traffic stop.
Police say Noel was speeding, ran a stop sign and crashed into a red Jeep Grand Cherokee.
Authorities say he died in the accident.
His death has not brought any comfort to the girl or her family.
“Kill them all,” her aunt said of child abusers like Noel, adding that she was glad he was killed and no one else was harmed.
The victim came to the front door with her aunt but was unwilling to talk about the assault.
“She doesn't want to talk about it,” her aunt said.
“I think she's been very traumatized.”
Noel has been arrested four times in the past, most recently in 2022 for a robbery on Queens Boulevard where he possessed a knife, dragged a woman into his car and fled the scene.
“This is something she'll never forget,” her aunt said of Noel's latest victim.
“She may not fully understand it now, but it will affect her in the future as she grows up.”
