{"id":32904,"date":"2025-11-08T07:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T07:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/32904\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T07:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T07:25:07","slug":"nyc-creep-eric-mcmichael-who-allegedly-raped-12-year-old-girl-in-stairwell-cowardly-ducks-cameras-after-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/32904\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC creep Eric McMichael who allegedly raped 12-year-old girl in stairwell cowardly ducks cameras after arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A cowardly creep tried to hide his face from cameras Friday night after cops busted him <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/07\/us-news\/stranger-rapes-girl-12-in-nyc-public-housing-stairwell-cops\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">for allegedly raping a 12-year-old girl<\/a> in the stairwell of a Brooklyn public housing building a day earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Eric McMichael, 27, wearing a gray plaid shirt, gray shorts, and thick white tights, hunched his torso forward to dodge the flashing cameras as cops dragged him out of Brooklyn\u2019s Special Victims precinct and hauled him off to jail on rape and sex abuse charges for viciously attacking the young girl.<\/p>\n<p>The accused predator approached the preteen and grabbed her as she entered her Cooper Houses building on Morgan Avenue near Jackson Street in Williamsburg around 5:45 p.m. Thursday, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Eric McMichael, center, cowardly hid his face as cops led him out of the Special Victims precinct after his arrest. Robert Mecea<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old creep is accused of raping a 12-year-old girl inside a stairwell Thursday night. Robert Mecea<\/p>\n<p>The brute, a complete stranger, told the youngster, \u201cI\u2019m going to violate you\u201d as he shoved her to the ground and ordered her to bend over before carrying out the heinous sexual assault, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The Brooklyn perv then ran off when another person appeared in the stairwell, police and sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The young victim was taken to a local hospital in stable condition. <\/p>\n<p>Police \u2014 who had released photos of the violent fiend while hunting him down \u2014 arrested McMichael Friday afternoon and charged him with two counts of rape, burglary, two counts of sexual abuse, and endangering the welfare of a child. <\/p>\n<p>McMichael was charged with rape, sex abuse, burglary and child endangerment. Robert Mecea<\/p>\n<p>Cops arrested him Friday afternoon \u2014 nearly 24 hours after the heinous attack. Robert Mecea<\/p>\n<p>The young victim was taken to the hospital in stable condition following the violent sexual assault.  Robert Mecea<\/p>\n<p>McMichael has four prior convictions, including rape and burglary in 2019, police said, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnewyork.com\/news\/local\/crime-and-courts\/suspect-arrested-in-alleged-rape-of-12-year-old-girl-in-brooklyn-apartment-building\/6415940\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">according to NBC News 4.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He was also hit with grand larceny and robbery charges in 2023. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A cowardly creep tried to hide his face from cameras Friday night after cops busted him for allegedly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[101,98,303,57,9,56,63,65,64,3018,5161,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-32904","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-arrest","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-nyc-headlines","16":"tag-nyc-news","17":"tag-rape","18":"tag-sexual-assaults","19":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32904","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=32904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}