{"id":32220,"date":"2025-11-07T18:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T18:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/32220\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T18:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T18:45:07","slug":"12-year-old-girl-forcibly-raped-after-being-followed-into-brooklyn-apartment-building-nypd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/32220\/","title":{"rendered":"12-year-old girl \u2018forcibly\u2019 raped after being followed into Brooklyn apartment building: NYPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/MixCollage-07-Nov-2025-12-58-PM-688.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"NYPD-released images of the alleged suspect wanted in connection with the sexual assault of a 12-year-old girl in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Nov. 6\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"12-year-old girl \u2018forcibly\u2019 raped after being followed into Brooklyn apartment building: NYPD 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD released these images of the alleged suspect wanted in connection with the sexual assault of a 12-year-old girl in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Nov. 6<\/p>\n<p>Photo by NYPD\/Crimestoppers<\/p>\n<p>Detectives in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/new-york\/brooklyn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Brooklyn<\/a> are on the hunt for a rapist who attacked a 12-year-old girl on Thursday evening after following her into her East Williamsburg apartment building, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/police-fire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NYPD<\/a> released a photo Friday afternoon of the alleged perverted perpetrator sought for the attack, which occurred in the vicinity of Morgan Avenue and Skillman Avenue at about 5:45 p.m. on Nov. 6.<\/p>\n<p>Based on a preliminary investigation, police believe the victim was followed into her East Williamsburg apartment building. Cops said the yet-to-be identified suspect grabbed the 12-year-old before pushing her to the ground and \u201cforcibly\u201d raping her in the building\u2019s lobby.<\/p>\n<p>Following the attack, cops said, the perpetrator fled the scene on foot in an unknown direction.\n<\/p>\n<p>The incident was reported to the 94th Precinct. EMS rushed the victim to a local area hospital for evaluation, where her condition was reported as stable.\n<\/p>\n<p>Police described the suspect in the Nov. 6 rape as a man with a medium complexion with dreadlocks. He was last seen wearing a gray sweatshirt, black sweatpants, a colored backpack, and white\/black sneakers.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding the rape can call Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS (for Spanish, dial 888-57-PISTA). You can also submit tips online at <a href=\"http:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">crimestoppers.nypdonline.org<\/a>, or on X (formerly Twitter) <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/nypdtips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">@NYPDTips<\/a>. All calls and messages are kept confidential.<\/p>\n<p>As of Oct. 26, there have been six reported rapes in the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/assets\/nypd\/downloads\/pdf\/crime_statistics\/cs-en-us-094pct.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> 94th Precinct<\/a> so far this year. <a href=\"https:\/\/compstat.nypdonline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Citywide<\/a>, reports of rapes are up 17.8% year-to-date. The NYPD has previously stated that the rise is partly linked to a state law change in September 2024 that expanded the legal definition of rape to include various forms of nonconsensual sexual contact.<\/p>\n<p>The department added that sexual assault remains significantly underreported and urged survivors to contact the 24-hour NYPD Special Victims Division hotline at 212-267-RAPE (7273)<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NYPD released these images of the alleged suspect wanted in connection with the sexual assault of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[11067,98,100,99,9,24,63,103,3018,1424],"class_list":{"0":"post-32220","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-94th-precinct","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","11":"tag-brooklyn-news","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-nypd","16":"tag-rape","17":"tag-williamsburg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32220","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=32220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}