A Montana woman was stalked and chased by a sexual predator in Greenwich Village after leaving a subway station, then attacked on a dark street.
The urban nightmare unfolded around 1:30 a.m. on Sept. 15 when the victim, 29, was coming out of the West Fourth Street station when she felt a stranger following her.
Police said she started running but was caught by pursuers near West 11th Street.
“I don't need your phone. I want to please you,” the attacker growled and tried to grab her, police said.
The man threw the woman to the ground, straddled her, and began groping and punching her while barking, “Don't fight!” Please don't scream. I’m going to kill you,” a police source told the Post.
Officials said the woman managed to escape with blood on her face and her arms and knees slashed.
Her attacker was caught on surveillance tape and remains at large.
The horrifying encounter, classified as an attempted rape, comes amid a worrying spike in rapes this year.
Women's advocate Jane Manning, a former sex crimes prosecutor and head of Women's Equal Justice, questioned what the city was doing to fix the problem.
“New Yorkers want to know what the plan is to respond to these crimes, especially since the NYPD's Special Victims Unit was understaffed even before this increase,” Manning said. said.
Retired NYPD Commissioner Michael Osgood, who was fired as head of the Special Victims Unit after the city's Bureau of Investigation audit of the troubled department in 2018, said, “The number of rapes is increasing in every neighborhood.'' The main reason is the amount of damage caused.” The number of public disturbances occurring and the level of public disturbance in New York City is increasing.
Additional reporting by Georgia Worrell
