Urban nightmare: Rape up in NYC amid disorder, former NYPD chief says

A Montana woman was stalked and chased by a sex fiend through Greenwich Village after leaving a subway station, then attacked on a darkened street.The urban nightmare unfolded around 1:30 a.m.on Sept.

15, when the victim, 29, walked out of the West Fourth Street station and felt a stranger following her.She began to run but her pursuer caught her around West 11th Street, police said.“I don’t want your phone.

I want to please you,” the attacker growled as he grabbed her, police sources said. He tossed the woman to the ground, straddled her, then groped and punched her while barking, “Don’t fight.

Don’t scream.I will kill you,” police sources told The Post.

The woman, bleeding from the face with her arms and knees cut up, managed to escape, according to sources.Her attacker, who was caught on surveillance tape, is still on the loose.

The horrifying encounter — classified as an attempted rape — comes amid a concerning spike in rapes this year.Women’s advocate Jane Manning, a former sex crimes prosecutor and director of Women’s Equal Justice, questioned what the city was doing to solve the problem.“New Yorkers want to know what the plan is for responding to these crimes, especially since NYPD’s special Victims Unit was understaffed even before this increase,” Manning said.

Retired NYPD Chief Michael Osgood, who was removed from his post as the head of the Special Victims Division after a 2018 city Department of Investigation audit of the troubled unit, said, “a key factor in the increase in rapes in any community is the amount of public disorder that occurs and the level of public disorder in New York City has been increasing.Additional reporting by Georgia Worrell...