{"id":310419,"date":"2026-07-31T03:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T03:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/310419\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T03:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T03:27:09","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-exclusive-victim-of-bushwick-home-invasion-sexual-assault-speaks-for-first-time-since-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/310419\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Exclusive Victim Of Bushwick Home Invasion Sexual Assault Speaks For First Time Since Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">In a News 12 exclusive, a woman spoke out for the first time since she was attacked and sexually assaulted while sleeping in her Bushwick apartment in October 2025.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cIt was like out of a movie,\u201d said the victim, who asked not to be identified.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police said a man broke into the 43-year-old&#8217;s third-floor window on Pilling Street near Evergreen Avenue. She did not have a fire escape.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cThis man tied a rope to the chimney and climbed down the side of the building,\u201d said the victim.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The victim said she was sleeping when she smelled strong cologne and then saw a shadow.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cI said, \u2018Do I know you? Do I know you?\u2019 said the victim. \u201cHe took the mask off, and he almost looked like he thought I recognized him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The victim told News 12 on Thursday that she did not know the man, who spent more than an hour inside her home.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">RELATED: <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/photo-released-of-suspect-in-bushwick-sexual-assault-and-robbery\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Video shows suspect running off after woman sexually assaulted, robbed in Bushwick home<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cHe jumped on me, tried to smother me with a pillow,\u201d she said. \u201cI bit him. I fought back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police said he zip-tied her arms together, sexually assaulted her, then stole her cellphone.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cI had bruises all over,\u201d said the victim. \u201cI had a black eye.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The victim said she\u2019s speaking out now because she\u2019s frustrated with the police investigation.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201c[They told me] they know his name,\u201d said the victim. \u201cThey know where some of his family is. It\u2019s like, why can\u2019t you catch him?\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The NYPD released a photo of the alleged attacker.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Nassau County Police released the same photo \u2013 after they say the same man was accused of burglarizing another woman\u2019s home in Roosevelt in July 2025.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">RELATED: <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/longisland.news12.com\/man-wanted-for-burglary-at-roosevelt-home\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Man wanted for burglary at Roosevelt home<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cIt really makes me angry,\u201d said the victim. \u201cI was so hopeful, and then [the investigation] just slowed down and slowed down when they had all this great evidence that was coming in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">News 12 reached out to both police departments.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A spokesperson for Nassau County said they\u2019re working with the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The NYPD simply responded, \u201cThe investigation remains ongoing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cYou just would never expect it to happen that way,\u201d said the victim.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">She told News 12 that she now lives out of state, suffers from PTSD and often wakes up screaming.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">She said she was sharing her story not only to find the alleged attacker but to warn other women to be alert.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cThis man is still out there,\u201d she said. \u201cHe can do this again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a News 12 exclusive, a woman spoke out for the first time since she was attacked and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-310419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}