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.
Is this press conference gonna be on ny1?
11214 – whats your point? just take it? fighting/screaming is your best bet, nobody wants the attention. this happened to someone i know and the physical resistance plus yelling scared the guy off.
“she should have screamed her head off when he was dragging her. Im sure someone would have reacted.”
have you ever heard of kitty genovese?
“In fact he’s so cliched I think he’s some white guy trying to be a smartass.”
Clearly.
The news is very shocking and I’m thankful for the reminder that things like this do happen in your hood and you have to protect yourself. My only suggestion is to never walk on the sidewalks when out late or very early. I tend to walk in the middle of streets and sway from one side to the next. Also I’m always curious to know if the perps attack just anyone out and about or do they specifically target smaller women? Again this is sad news and i hope the victim gets the help she needs to recover.
Thanks for posting this, ‘stoner.
I don’t think the crime postings are meant primarily for information, but for the story. It’s just plain shocking – “did you know a woman was raped in the middle of the block on a garbage pickup day??” “oh wow, that is really unbelievable.” I read police blotters on occasion but it’s always the same old, same old.
As I said much earlier, I would rather have Mr. B inform us of these crimes (at the risk of having scum like PropJoe commenting) in order to keep potential victims aware of what can is does happen and hopefully allow them to defend themselves if ever faced with this horrific situation. In past threads when commenters have come on and posted tips on how to stay safe, such tips were met with great appreciation. There should be no tolerance in these threads however for “anti project, and anti minority rants” that Montrose speaks of above. As bxgrl suggests above, I too agree that, given the theme and very name of this blog, it does make sense to focus primarily on crimes committed in “brownstone Brooklyn”.
MM – I have a lot of respect for you through your postings, but that just seems like a politician’s answer. I don’t think you’re full of it, but I think you are being hypocritical.
I’m sure you will agree that racists like propjoe don’t become racists through “knowledge”. As far as I can see there is no way to determine what race the attacker was, and propjoe didn’t become any more racist because of this, he’s already got his mind made up. He’kll use it to reinforce his prejudice – but he’ll more than likely use anything to do that.
I will acknowledge we see things differently. You call “animals” a code word, and yet the very same term was used time and time again in the racially homogeneous (non-US) community I grew up in to describe people who attack others. People would write into the local paper to complain though, pointing at that animals were actually nice to one another and only humans had wars etc…