‘I need help’: Good Samaritan comes to aid of woman raped by stranger on morning jog
Amanda Woods, Joe Marino, and Gabrielle Fonrouge | November 3, 2022 | 10:17amA woman out for a run in the West Village was raped, choked and robbed Thursday morning by a stranger who left her bleeding on the path before taking off on a Citi Bike after the harrowing attack.
The 43-year-old woman was running around 5:30 a.m. along Pier 45, near West and Christopher streets, when a man grabbed her from behind and choked her until she lost consciousness, police said.
The fiend then knocked her to the ground, took off her clothing and raped her, cops said.
He grabbed the woman’s wallet, debit card, cell phone and headphones before taking off on a Citi Bike, leaving her shoeless and with blood running from her face and elbows, cops, law-enforcement sources and a witness said.
“She was in workout clothes but they were kind of torn up, they were dirty, she wasn’t wearing any shoes, she was just wearing one sock,” said Gabrielle Sumkin, who was out for a run when she came across the disheveled woman standing on the path.
“She was like holding her eye… This woman seemed like she was legitimately very hurt and it was clear that something had happened to her,” the Greenwich Village resident said.
Sumkin, 23, said she, “approached her slowly and I asked her if she was OK.”
“She was just kind of saying ‘I need help, I need help,’” the good Samaritan told The Post by phone. “She had like clearly been through physical trauma.” . . .
. . . The incident comes just over a month after a 35-year-old woman was sexually assaulted and robbed at knifepoint while jogging at Fort Tryon Park in Inwood.
Kenneth Miller, 31, was arrested in connection with that incident, police said.
Another jogger was sexually assaulted in late March on the Hudson River Greenway at Pier 40 near West and Clarkson streets, police said.
Rapes citywide are up nearly 16% so far this year compared to this time period last year, NYPD data show.
In the sixth precinct where the attack happened, rapes are up 22%, data show. . .
https://nypost.com/2022/11/03/jogger-43-raped-by-total-stranger-in-nyc-cops/
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