Man Charged in Rape (both Vaginally and Anally), Kidnapping of 82-Year-Old Woman in Coney Island
Sicko suspect in 82-year-old’s rape busted in Brooklyn after mom gave police his phone number: cops
The suspect in the brutal beating and rape of an 82-year-old Brooklyn woman was hardly as tough when finally collared by the cops.
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Accused sexual predator Asa Roberts, 18, put up his hands and surrendered meekly when cornered before dawn Friday to end a four-day manhunt, sources told us. “I’m here to give up,” said the newly pacifist teen, who had allegedly threatened to kill his octogenarian victim if she called the cops after the Monday morning rape and assault that lasted more than four hours.
Although Roberts chopped off most of his Afro while on the lam, the victim picked him out of a lineup Friday afternoon, sources said. Later, just about midnight, he was ordered held without bail after being arraigned late Friday in Brooklyn Criminal Court.
The arrest of Roberts — whose rap sheet includes a sex charge when he was 9 years old — came after his mom tipped cops to his new cell phone number, sources said. The signal led police to his girlfriend’s home, and he was arrested about eight hours later. Roberts, his hands cuffed behind his back, insisted he was innocent of raping and sodomizing the helpless senior citizen to end a night of terror.
During the assault, the victim told family members, Roberts forced her to swear on a Bible that she would not send the police after him. A fingerprint lifted from the victim’s bedroom dresser was matched to Roberts’ left middle finger, cops said. And he was captured on video both arriving at and leaving the victim’s brick home. “I’m sorry for being in her house,” said Roberts. “I apologize, but I did not rape the lady. That’s all I have to say. Have a nice day.”
Officials announced an avalanche of charges against Roberts, including rape, robbery and assault. He put a knife to the senior citizen’s face after surprising the victim inside her darkened bedroom, cops said. Roberts, who narrowly averted arrest Thursday night by jumping out a window and down the fire escape of his girlfriend’s Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment, was finally nabbed at 3:50 a.m. on Friday.
Neighbor Jeremy Edelstein, 25, who lives right below the girlfriend’s second-floor home, said the building became a madhouse as Roberts eluded the cops. Roberts had apparently cut off his Afro in an attempt to disguise his appearance since the July 13 incident. Police officers “were coming off the fire escape, off the roof,” he recounted. “All I know is that when I came out, I saw someone climbing over the fence.” NYPD bloodhounds were brought out as the cops scoured the neighborhood for the wanted teen.
Roberts eventually found refuge in the Putnam Ave. home of a city probation officer, who was awakened by the sound of cops banging on his door in a sweep of the neighborhood. As the officer went to let the cops in, he found Roberts standing shirtless and barefoot in his living room, sources said. The police entered and quickly arrested the suspect. Witness Joshua Hudson and a pal saw Roberts sitting on the sidewalk with his head hanging down amid a phalanx of cops after his arrest. Roberts was also arraigned Friday on charges related to a March 22 incident where he allegedly attacked a cop after jumping a turnstile at a Brooklyn subway station.
The disheveled-looking teen wore a red, hooded sweatshirt and interrupted the proceedings several times to complain about being photographed. “The defendant committed an incredibly serious crime. He violently and physically assaulted an 82-year-old woman in her home,” Special Prosecutor Elizabeth Doerfler said. “He spent significant amount of time in her house, terrorizing her and sexually assaulting her, both vaginally and anally.”
His mother and grandmother were in the courtroom and as he was led out in handcuffs they both yelled “We love you. We love you, son.
” Why did he rape an 82-year-old lady …
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