Suspect Held In Beating, Sexual Assault Of 15-Year-Old Girl In The Bronx
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- A suspect was in custody early Saturday in the brutal beating and sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl in the Bronx earlier this week.
Police said a suspect was apprehended and charges were pending as of shortly after midnight Saturday morning in connection with the attack around 4:40 a.m. Monday in Shoelace Park, near Bronx Boulevard and 213th Street.
Police said the girl was coming home from a friend's house on Staten Island when she got off the No. 2 Train alone at the Gun Hill Road subway station.
At that point, she met the stranger, who struck up a conversation, police said. The stranger then dragged her into the park a few blocks away and stomped on her head, cracked her teeth and sexually assaulted her before forcing her into the Bronx River.
The girl was in and out of consciousness and partially clothed when she was found hours later by a Good Samaritan who drove her to Montefiore Medical Center. The suspect had fled east on 213th Street.
The attack came just two weeks after what police said was an unrelated incident. A man tried to kiss a 9-year-old girl in the elevator of a nearby building.