Search On For Attempted Rape Suspect In East Village
Police on Tuesday were asking the public to help them find a suspect in an attempted rape this past weekend in the East Village.
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Police on Tuesday were asking the public to help them find a suspect in an attempted rape this past weekend in the East Village.
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The victim was near a turnstile when the suspect walked up behind her, grabbed her by the neck, covered her mouth and dragged her towards an elevator, police said. The suspect told the victim, "I just want to love you baby," police said.
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Around midnight on Nov. 10, a 20-year-old woman was walking near Madison Street and Patchen Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant when the suspect approached her from behind and dragged her into Reinaldo Salgado Park, police said.
Sources told CBS 2 that a 28-year-old woman was seen walking with a man into the park. She claims he asked her for directions, took her into the park and assaulted her.
The man pushed the 24-year-old woman into the building, beat her and then sexually assaulted her, sources said.
Glenn Mishuck, 47, of Bridgeport, was charged with 17 counts of second-degree sexual assault. Mishuck, who taught at Fairfield Ludlowe High School, was being held on $150,000 bond.
Police on Wednesday were searching two suspects in connection with the sexual assault a 16-year-old girl in East Flatbush, Brooklyn late last week.
Jason Carroll, 23, has been charged with two counts of predatory sexual assault against a child, prosecutors announced.
The fear factor has been exacerbated by a recent spate of sexual assaults in the park.
The women told police they were at a house party off Hunting Lodge Road on Friday night when two men took them into the woods and sexually assaulted them.
According to police, Jaclyn P. Melillo, 25, has been charged with two counts of sexual assault and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child.
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