I guess it was wrong of me to mention the race of the victim andthe nationality and immigration status of the rapist, wasn’t it? Wherepeople come from doesn’t matter, does it? We’re all people, aren’t we?And there’s no pattern of black, Hispanic, and Muslim men raping andkilling white women, is there?
The first story is from the New Haven Register
Woman viciously beaten, raped
Published: Monday, March 30, 2009
By Ann DeMatteo, Assistant Metro Editor
HAMDEN–A town woman, 25, survived a vicious attack by a co-worker whoallegedly tried to snap her neck, stomped on her chest, raped her andleft her for dead early Friday in East Rock Park, police said.
After the man drove off in her car, the severely beaten woman made herway from the park, down a hill through grass and branches, to a houseon Ridge Road, and frantically rang a doorbell.
A resident who had been sleeping on the couch on the first floor heard a commotion and opened the door to a horrifying sight.
“The girl’s eyes were completely closed and blood was all over herface. It was like something out of a horror movie,” he said. “She wassaying ‘Help me, help me, please help me.'”
The homeowner’s wife called 911, and in less than five minutes, policearrived, the man said. The woman is being treated at Yale-New HavenHospital.
According to Capt. Ronald Smith, the woman was repeatedly beaten andraped by the co-worker, who was later found at a house in New Haven’sNewhallville section.
The suspect was booked on charges of criminal attempt to commit murder,first-degree sexual assault, kidnapping and strangulation andsecond-degree assault, and is being held in lieu of $1 million bail.Police are trying to determine the man’s citizenship status.
Police are not releasing the name of the victim or her assailant, “due to the continuing investigation,” Smith said.
“Our uniform and investigative personnel did an outstanding job piecingtogether this brutal and heinous crime,” Police Chief Thomas J. Wydrasaid. “The victim’s strength and survival instincts ultimately led toher surviving this attack.”
The assault apparently began after the man and woman finished theirshifts and left Temple Grill on Temple Street in New Haven, sourcessaid. A woman who answered the phone at the establishment Friday nightsaid she didn’t know anything about the incident.
The victim told officers that at about 1:30 a.m., her co-worker askedfor a ride home, police said. Police do not know the reasons behind theincident, or whether they were acquaintances or friends.