Sex Assault Pattern Continues In Brooklyn, Number Of Attacks Reaches 20
On Friday, the NYPD was canvassing Windsor Terrace, where another sex assault bumped the total to 20 in Brooklyn since March.
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On Friday, the NYPD was canvassing Windsor Terrace, where another sex assault bumped the total to 20 in Brooklyn since March.
Martinez allegedly grabbed a woman from behind and groped her as she was walking near 36th Street and between Fourth and Fifth Avenues early Monday morning.
Police said the sketch was produced using information from the victim of the latest attack, which took place Sunday night around midnight in Windsor Terrace.
The suspect dragged a woman off the street and into the woods along the Cross-Island Parkway in Whitestone Wednesday morning. Luckily for the woman, the woods were near the home of former Marine Brian Teichman's babysitter.
The man, who was wearing a dark suit, white shirt with a wide collar, followed a young woman to her apartment last Thursday on Horation and Husdon Streets and assaulted her, police said.
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