{"id":32073,"date":"2025-11-07T16:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T16:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/32073\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T16:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T16:54:10","slug":"stranger-rapes-girl-12-in-nyc-public-housing-stairwell-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/32073\/","title":{"rendered":"Stranger rapes girl, 12, in NYC public housing stairwell: cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A stranger told a 12-year-old girl \u201cI\u2019m going to violate you,\u201d and raped her in a heinous attack in the stairwell of a Brooklyn public housing building Thursday, cops and sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The predator approached the preteen around 5:45 p.m. in the stairwell of the Cooper Houses building on Morgan Avenue near Jackson Street in Williamsburg, according to authorities and sources.<\/p>\n<p>He ordered her to bend over as made his disturbing intentions clear, the sources said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.01085884;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37603177\" width=\"596\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/person-interest-rape-sexual-assault-114976481.jpg\" alt=\"Rape suspect in Brooklyn\" class=\"wp-image-37603177\"  \/>A suspect raped a 12-year-old girl in the stairwell of the Cooper Houses building in Williamsburg.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49707602;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37603215\" width=\"883\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/45-pm-female-child-raped-114965537.jpg\" alt=\"Police officers and crime scene unit members work at the NYCHA building where a 12-year-old girl was raped.\" class=\"wp-image-37603215\"  \/>NYPD officers work at the NYCHA building where a 12-year-old girl was raped. Kyle Mazza\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>He then raped the girl, only fleeing when another person appeared in the stairwell, according to the sources.<\/p>\n<p>The young victim was taken to a local area hospital, where she is listed in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>The attacker \u2014 who was still on the loose Friday \u2014 is described as a man in his 20s with distinctive gold-tipped dreadlocks, last seen wearing a black T-shirt, the sources said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A stranger told a 12-year-old girl \u201cI\u2019m going to violate you,\u201d and raped her in a heinous attack&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,57,9,24,63,3018,5161,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-32073","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-rape","16":"tag-sexual-assaults","17":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32073","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=32073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}