Woman Fights Off Potential Rapist In Queens
The 23-year-old woman was followed from the bus stop at 8 p.m. along South Conduit Avenue when someone tried to sexually assault her in Laurelton Sunday.
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The 23-year-old woman was followed from the bus stop at 8 p.m. along South Conduit Avenue when someone tried to sexually assault her in Laurelton Sunday.
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.
Police are looking for a suspect who they say robbed and sexually assaulted a 16-year-old boy at a Long Island Rail Road station.
The latest incident happened last Friday night as the victim left the Prospect Ave. subway station around 8:30 p.m. Police said the woman was jumped from behind but managed to fight the attacker off.
The indictment says Shand raped, strangled and drowned the teen, a Dutchess Community College freshman and star gymnast in high school.
Police say both attacks happened in July. In each one, the suspect goes up to a woman from behind, grabs her breast and then takes off.
Authorities said 20-year-old Loni Bouchard was charged with second-degree sexual assault for allegedly having sex with a minor in Southington. That accusation follows an earlier alleged incident in a neighboring town.
Sex assault charges have been filed against a 79-year-old convicted sex offender following an incident at a lemonade stand run by three young girls in southern New Jersey.
The New York City Police Department is asking for the public's assistance in identifying and apprehending a man wanted in connection with a string of sexual assaults in the Bronx.
Port Chester police are searching for an intruder who wrapped his fingers around an 8-year-old girl's throat and tried to pull down her pants after breaking into her bedroom.
According to detectives, the suspect followed a woman into a building then into an elevator and sexually assaulted her.
A Connecticut man who had part of his tongue bitten off during an alleged sexual assault was arraigned Monday on multiple charges.
Police say a 15-year-old girl, who accused two male students of raping her in a stairwell at Clifton High School, waited several weeks to report the incident because she was afraid.
Police were on alert and residents on edge after three separate sexual assaults on women in one Upper Manhattan community.
Police said a man struck up a conversation with a 28-year-old woman who was walking near the ball fields, forced her into a secluded area of the park and sexually assaulted her.
The search for a sexual predator that attacked a woman near the Financial District in lower Manhattan intensified on Thursday. Police not only have the suspect's description, they have his picture.
One of the six men and boys charged with the execution-style murders of three friends in Newark, N.J., in 2007 is mulling a plea offer from prosecutors.
A Brooklyn man with a long rap sheet has been arrested in the brutal sex assault of an 85-year-old woman on the Upper East Side, police said.
A doorman helped thwart the rape attempt of a 25-year-old woman on 90th Street and Lexington Avenue last week blocks from where an 85-year-old woman was sexually assaulted on Memorial Day.
A manhunt continued Tuesday for a man who allegedly sexually assaulted an elderly woman on the Upper East Side. The terrifying ordeal took place smack dab in the heart of one of New York's toniest neighborhoods.
Horror rocked the Upper East Side over the Memorial Day weekend. An elderly woman was sexually assaulted and robbed.
