{"id":350210,"date":"2026-09-18T13:46:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T13:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/350210\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T13:46:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T13:46:53","slug":"predator-attacks-tries-to-sexually-assault-woman-inside-brooklyns-prospect-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/350210\/","title":{"rendered":"Predator attacks, tries to sexually assault, woman inside Brooklyn&#8217;s Prospect Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A stranger grabbed and tried to sexually assault a woman walking through Brooklyn\u2019s Prospect Park, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/09\/03\/nyc-has-one-of-its-safest-summers-ever-but-subway-assaults-and-hate-crimes-are-up\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police<\/a> said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The 41-year-old victim was walking near the Boathouse on E. Drive when the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnewyork.com\/brooklyn\/search-suspect-sexual-assault-woman-prospect-park\/6549174\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">suspect approached her<\/a> about 9:30 p.m. Wednesday and tried to strike up a conversation with her, NBC 4 New York reported.<\/p>\n<p>The woman walked away from the stranger, but he followed her. He then grabbed her and tried to sexually assault her but the woman managed to get away, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was taken to a local hospital with minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>There are no cameras near the remote area of the park where the attack took place, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect was described as a man with a dark complexion, about 6-foot-2, and was last seen wearing a hat and a T-shirt, NBC reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A stranger grabbed and tried to sexually assault a woman walking through Brooklyn\u2019s Prospect Park, police said Friday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":["post-350210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350210","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=350210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}