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Wednesday, August 06, 2008

Police Search For Brooklyn Sexual Attacker 

Police set up a mobile command center in a Brooklyn neighborhood Tuesday after a local teenager was sexually assaulted.

Authorities say a 14-year-old Hasidic girl was picked up in Borough Park at 10 p.m. Sunday, forced off the street and then sexually assaulted a few blocks away.

The incident was reported to police around 2 a.m. Monday, but they do not have a clear description of the suspect.

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said police are hoping the victim can help them find who the suspect is.

"We're trying to get all of the facts in this case,” said Kelly. “She's been traumatized by the event and it's a little challenging to get all of the specifics. That's what we're working on now."

Brooklyn Assemblyman Dov Hikind set up a $10,000 reward for information leading to the attacker’s arrest.

“People need to be alert. Things like this unfortunately happen,” said Hikind. “That’s the reality, so people need to be aware and keep their eyes open.”

Residents were shaken in the wake of the attack.

“It’s just very, very shocking that it actually has happened here in our neighborhood, where we live and let our kids play,” said local Rachel Bineth. “We’d love to have, I guess, more patrol so these things don’t happen.”

"It definitely does worry me. It's a great concern,” said resident Naftali Orlander. “You never know the dangers that’s lurking outside when you send the kids, innocently, to play in the street where you think it's safe. Especially in this neighborhood -- it's usually safe."

“I will not let them go out after dark. Absolutely not,” said local Milky Spira. “And I’m sure most of the mothers in this neighborhood wouldn’t allow them.”

Anyone with any information is asked to call the Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS.

http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=1&aid=84584

Comments:
HE SHOULD BE HUNG BUY HIS NOSTRILS

 

anonymous 9:28 pm:

I agree that we should be outraged regardless of who the victim is. I think that sometimes when people hear of rapes or assaults, if they don't know the victim they assume that she was dressed inappropriately/ behaving inappropriately/ walking somewhere she shouldn't have been & therefore somehow contributed to her situation. In this case obviously everyone knows that's not true.

 

anonymous 9:28:

Of course that's true, but wouldn't you be more upset if it was your sister or cousin, versus a stranger you read about in the paper? Don't you get more upset if it's your sister or cousin? Yidden are a family - we're all brothers and sisters and cousins.

If anything you should be impressed that we all care so deeply about a girl most of us never met - that's the unity of klal yisroel. Don't you wish your neighborhood were like that? When's the last time YOU felt so personally involved in a crime you jut read about in the newspaper - as personally as if it were your cousin?

 

I'm the third poster, but I'd like to give my opinion. Of course I'm more hurt when a Jewish person (frum or not) suffers; Klal Yisroel does feel like a family & that's why these incidents affect everyone so much.

I think the point the second poster was making was that we should be concerned even if the victim isn't Jewish. First of all, every person is a tzelem elokim, & no one should suffer from an assault. Secondly, from a more selfish point of view, we want the streets to be safer for everyone.

 

America's children reguardless of who they are, are in danger. Why is this rape epidemic allowed to continue? :( .

 

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