Sexual Attack on St. Felix Prompts Press Conference
Yesterday morning shortly before 6 a.m a woman on her way to work at Brooklyn Hospital was sexually attacked on St. Felix Street between Fulton and Dekalb Avenues. Here’s what was posted on the Fort Greene Kids list by someone who spoke to police on the scene: A young female doctor was assaulted, raped and…
Yesterday morning shortly before 6 a.m a woman on her way to work at Brooklyn Hospital was sexually attacked on St. Felix Street between Fulton and Dekalb Avenues. Here’s what was posted on the Fort Greene Kids list by someone who spoke to police on the scene:
A young female doctor was assaulted, raped and robbed at around 5:45am on her way to work at Brooklyn Hospital. The attack occurred on St Felix Street between Fulton & Dekalb. Supposedly, the attacker dragged her down a stoop and hid behind some garbage cans. As far as I know, he got away. This was a very bold sexual assault – outdoors in freezing weather in the middle of a residential block on a garbage pick up morning and around the time the NY Times delivery guy comes by.
We were able to confirm that as of last night the police had no one in custody. City Councilmember Letitia James will be holding a press conference today at 3 p.m. at the corner of Fulton and St. Felix to call for more police presence in the area and to raise awareness about safety measures.
“All this talk that the victim should have screamed louder. Or shouldn’t have been out at that hour. Please. Any talk that blames the victim is beneath contempt.”
AGREED. I’m really disgusted. People need to believe it’s impossible for something like this to happen to them. So they tell themselves, “oh I wouldn’t be out at that hour” as if rapes only happen at this hour. Or, “Well I’d scream and make the guy run away” as if they have any clue how they would react to something that’s never happened to them before. You have no idea in what way this woman was threatened or overpowered. Rape is not the worst thing that could have happened to this poor woman. Being killed is the worst thing. Stop letting the rapist off the hook by claiming the victim should have screamed louder. This guy made a choice to commit an act of violence he is entirely 100% responsible for.
Legion;
Don’t even dignify buckfast’s post with a response. If you look at some of his past posts, you’ll see that you’re dealing with a guy who admitted to a sense of happiness about a reported mugging, as it might give the “yuppies” pause.
I salute your actions. We need more folks like you in New York.
i agree legion.when a crime happends on ur property or to ur property is one thing.but to go out of ur way and help the cops catch someone for beating down some other guy(who probably deserved it in the first place)is another.seems like ur a bit of a dogooder to me.the guy that u helped lock up,might just remember where u live.
buckfast. how’s this you:
I don’t give a flyin’ fuck what you think. I’ve been there and done that. I was living in the “hood” during the crack epidemic of the eighties. In ENY. 75th pct. My father and our family didn’t care back then who it was breaking into the roof next to my bedroom window, who was tearing down gates on Liberty Ave. beneath our apt. who was crawling through the backyard to get onto our property.
All were confronted in one way or another.
So I’ve somehow lived to tell. and I’ll be damned if I will take my cues on what’s right or wrong from the likes of you. Nor will I base my actions on some lowlife code of ethics.
Feel free to wear a ghetto motto across your chest. I’ll continue to do what I feel is right to protect myself and my family and the community we live in.
Again, let’s hope the subhuman who perpetrated this crime is caught and prosecuted.
New York, it’s time to consider a Gautreaux Project
Legion:
Good for you!
One of the things Dad did after that night was to keep a baseball bat in the foyer closet — just in case it happened again!
It didn’t, happily.
Maybe word got out not to mess on our block.
And here’s advice from my mother: You being attacked or chasing a perp? Don’t just yell or scream. Shout “Police!”
That way people nearby understand it’s not a personal dispute — or a joke.
NOP
“And we all know it tends to be committed by black males between the ages of 17 and 40 who live in the projects.”
I think this is the kind of stereotype Montrose is talking about.
ur a f’n SNITCH Legion.mind ur business next time or it could come back on u.
I agree with NOP, New Yorkers have to become engaged in their community, any way they can. I don’t know that this crime was avoidable but there are many things that landlords and renters can do to help make the streets safer. I enrolled one of my properties in the TAP (tresspass affadavit program) with the local precinct. This gives them the authority to arrest people found inside the building that have no business being there and to monitor the property for loitering and tresspassing. I have clear lighting in front and back of my properties. Many of these miscreants sneak around at night behind properties looking for an entry. Locks are fixed immediately if broken and gates are installed in places where no one should have access but myself.
People need to be engaged in what’s happening around them and their homes, you cannot afford to have a fortress mentality where you close the door at 6pm and anything that goes on outside is their business. This past summer on the corner near my house I was awakened about 2:30 in the morning to the sound of some punks beating on a guy in the street after having dragged him from his car. First I called 911. Then I noticed that one of these punks was actually trying to stash the stolen loot in my driveway, I opened the window and loudly told him to get off the property as I was about to get my gun (whether I have one or not is for the criminal to find out). Needless to say he started booking and informing his fellow miscreants. The police arrived and started making arrests. meanwhile another punk was trying to hide behind my neighbor’s bush. I walked outside, calmly asked the officer to follow me and took him to where this piece of trash was hiding. Where my neighbor was all this time while this racket was going on in front of his house, is beyond me. Which goes to my point about getting engaged and not hiding behind a curtain. Perhaps he didn’t hear, I kind of doubt it though because he manages to hear me anytime I so much as step on his property, but that’s another story.
Meanwhile, as an “only in New York” story, the guy who was beaten to a bloody pulp, having been dragged from his Porsche Cayenne and standing in the street with his shirt torn off and shoes stolen, refused to press charges. No matter though, two of the punks were arrested on other charges. I hate to think that if nobody had intervened, the assault could have escalated to murder.
Six months earlier, while driving down the local boulevard with my son, we notice a man lying prone on the floor by a bus-stop. While the 4 or 5 people at the bus stop across the street are standing there doing nothing. I stopped the car, backed up on to the grass and got out. The old man was breathing but obviously mentally impaired. I dialed 911, the fire truck arrived within 5 minutes with the ambulance. The guy was alright after that. Then I had the complicated business of explaining to my 5 year old why a group of adults would find it somehow acceptable to wait for a bus quietly while a fellow human being was lying on the sidewalk facedown across the road.
Take it for what it is, two anecdotes about life in the city. The heros on 9/11 and more recently with the plane crash in the Hudson showed us how action saves lives. I try to live up to their model as much as I can. It’s the least I can do.
I hope that the young woman who was victimized by this subhuman can find the support and help she needs to get through this.