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Woman Sexually Assaulted in Central Park Thursday

November 11, 2021 | 1:26 PM - Updated on June 5, 2022 | 11:31 PM
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By Carol Tannenhauser

A woman jogger was sexually assaulted in Central Park Thursday morning, an NYPD spokesperson said.

“[The assault] occurred at 7:21 a.m., on a footpath in the vicinity of Wollman Rink [near 63rd Street],” an NYPD spokesperson told WSR. “A woman 20-30 was attacked by a dark-skinned male.”

“She was grabbed from behind and put in a chokehold…,” according to ABC. “She lost consciousness and awoke with cuts, abrasions and bruises to her arms and chin.” The suspect fled the scene in an unknown direction, police said. The victim was taken to Mt. Sinai West, in stable condition.

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Alfonse
Alfonse
1 year ago

Feel very bad for the woman.

The stench of Deblasio will take a long time to cleanse…

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Hal Roth
Hal Roth
1 year ago
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That’s why he wants to run for Gov, to heal the wounds that this perfect storm caused. Let’s all wish him well.

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Jack Hammer
Jack Hammer
1 year ago
Reply to  Alfonse

Right there was no crime in N.Y before Deblasio

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sh
sh
1 year ago
Reply to  Jack Hammer

Foolish statement…everyone knows that crime got worse under him.

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EdNY
EdNY
1 year ago
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Crime got worse in virtually every major city during the pandemic.

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Debra
Debra
1 year ago
Reply to  Jack Hammer

There was crime before DiBlasio but there’s so much more now. City seems so much less safe.

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Joanne - Not Today!
Joanne - Not Today!
1 year ago

I feel so sorry for this woman and hope she is ok. We all need to learn self defense and carry pepper spray. I studied Muay Thai at Valor on 72nd and Broadway and also took a self defense class there. We learned what to do when attacked from behind. I believe there is a class this Saturday. Please ladies get yourselves and your daughters trained.

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Jo Baldin
Jo Baldin
1 year ago

Until the penalties catch up with the seriousness of the crime, we will continue seeing this behavior as we did before DeBlasio and as we will continue seeing after.

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robert maxwell
robert maxwell
1 year ago

YOU referenced a second assault..Where did that take place

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Mr. David Griffin
Mr. David Griffin
1 year ago

This is not a surprise. This is what happens when your city politicians vote to defund the police. How many more horrific crimes must we endure? I think it is extremely important for everyone to write to your local city representatives to let them know that they must share the responsibility and start to take action to get more funds to our overworked policeman.

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Don Kedick
Don Kedick
1 year ago
Reply to  Mr. David Griffin

Love how people jump straight to “this is what happens when you defund the police” when no one has actually defunded the police! If the police are this useless with full funding, maybe it IS time to go ahead and cut their bloated budget so that we can actually tackle these problems.

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Ken
Ken
1 year ago
Reply to  Don Kedick

Well said, Don; I think you hit the nail on the head.

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Jamilah A Elder
Jamilah A Elder
1 year ago
Reply to  Mr. David Griffin

Police don’t prevent crime. They show up after it happens. More police funding will not make you or society safer. Poverty, despair and hopelessness are powerful motivators to turn to crime. You want less crime? Crime prevention starts with refunding our communities, social programs and creating opportunity. People need to feel hope.

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Colleen Meehan
Colleen Meehan
1 year ago

I’m really afraid to run, these days. And the thought of going back to the gym (gross NYSports!) is not appealing. I feel bad for these women. WTF

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rita aiello
rita aiello
1 year ago

De Blasio has been a disaster for NYC! Eight years of disaster! Before him there was **some** sense of law and order here. Now it is a free for all: Just take what you want, rob whom you want since there is no even a jail to put you in. Just help yourself!
I certainly hope that things will improve with the new major. Could the status quo get any lower?

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Ted Henning
Ted Henning
1 year ago

Once upon a time, we had a security force. What were they called? Oh yeah, police ! I know we are still paying for them. Where are they?

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Jae
Jae
1 year ago

Police don’t prevent crime. They show up after it happens. More police funding will not make you or society safer. Poverty, despair and hopelessness are powerful motivators to turn to crime. You want less crime? Crime prevention starts with refunding our communities, social programs and creating opportunity. People need to feel hope.

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Mark Moore
Mark Moore
1 year ago
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I’m not part of the sky is falling crowd, but rape is a crime of poverty and despair??? Gimme a break.

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Lisa
Lisa
1 year ago
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Jae. Poverty has nothing to do with sex crimes.

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Pedestrian
Pedestrian
1 year ago
Reply to  Jae

Police presence can prevent crime. Sure and proportionate consequences for crime at lease may prevent the perpetrator from doing it again during his or her incarceration. We cannot ignore the impact of a refusal to accept that laws must be enforced and those who break the laws no matter their race, creed, National origin or sexual identification or status must be punished
This includes police!
We must also look at social programs but let’s not label the poor as criminals. It’s stigmatizing and offensive.

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Big picture
Big picture
1 year ago
Reply to  Jae

Of course police prevent crime – if folks learn that negative actions again have for them personally a cost, that is, consequences (police investigations, arrests, detention etc) that disincentivizes many would be perpetrators. To look at the role of police as a snapshot in one specific crime instead of strongly disincentivizing crime, ignores the forest for the trees.

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Jae
Jae
1 year ago
Reply to  Big picture

Policing is a reactionary view to crime as opposed to addressing the root causes. I’m not surprised because it’s typical of how issues are addressed. Never putting the effort into actually solving issues.
But here we are. I repeat, police don’t prevent crimes and advocating for a society of fear and intimidation is not a healthy society to live. When our communities are funded with social programs that help people we’re safer. When people are happy and have hope, they’re not thinking about committing crimes and we’re all safer and happier for it.

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Alicia
Alicia
1 year ago
Reply to  Big picture

You are correct. And the latest coddling of criminals with the no bail, catch and release type arrests are only hurting the hard working middle and lower income families.
I do hope Eric Adams stands his ground and brings back the anti-crime units, but I fear he may cave to the foolishness of the left leaning electorate and BLM.

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Phoebe
Phoebe
1 year ago
Reply to  Alicia

I hear that he wasn’t very effective in Brooklyn. Does anyone know any details about what I just said? I hope he acknowledges the connection between his wearing a bullet-prod vest and carrying a gun, and we potential victims out here. It’s nice to want to know what made a criminal do the act. It’s more important to know that victims suffer long after the crime is done, and social justice warriors ought to be more concerned with their trauma, moving forward.
It should go without saying that we need to work on prevention. But it’s more serious than “Hurt people hurt people. It’s people who are not held accountable for their acts who think nothing of what they do do others.

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Mark
Mark
1 year ago

I can’t believe it, after growing up in the 70s and 80s to be seeing these kinds of things in Manhattan again. I thought this kind of thing was ancient history.

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Mutaman
Mutaman
1 year ago
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You can’t believe someone getting assaulted in NYC? What planet do you live on?

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D.L.
D.L.
1 year ago

The NY Post website has a clear video of the suspect leaving a train station at this web link, he is wearing a black face mask.

https://nypost.com/2021/11/11/nypd-releases-footage-of-man-who-allegedly-raped-central-park-jogger/

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D.L.
D.L.
1 year ago
Reply to  D.L.

UPDATE: There are now new photos of the suspect with his face mask off, scroll through the whole NY Post article to see

https://nypost.com/2021/11/12/in-wake-of-central-park-rape-politicians-are-underestimating-how-scared-women-are-in-nyc-today/

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JL
JL
1 year ago
Reply to  D.L.

That’s a good clear image combined with the suspect’s “gait”. He is a subway fare beater also, as the video shows he was Entering the station through an exit.

There is additional footage turned into the police recorded on a corner store security camera — with his mask DOWN. If he comes up for air, the police will have him in custody before the weekend is over. If he is the perp.

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MAXINE SPECTOR
MAXINE SPECTOR
1 year ago

This is horrific for this poor woman. I think it is worth analysis to see how this happened and whether it is related to lessened police presence in certain areas. However, in the meanwhile, I think it would be wise to run with a partner or two, or choose a well travelled area. The loop in Central Park has many runners at this time. Self-defense class would babe good, but “an ounce of prevention…..”

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babrarus
babrarus
1 year ago

The poor woman was not just “sexually assaulted” – she was raped!

https://nypost.com/2021/11/11/nypd-releases-footage-of-man-who-allegedly-raped-central-park-jogger/

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