The Frum teenage girl attacked yesterday in broad daylight was grabbed by the suspect after he asked her for the time, police said today.
As first reported on TLS yesterday, at approximately 5:45 pm, Officer Kevin Donnelly responded to the area of 970 Park Avenue to investigate a reported assault.
Upon arrival the victim, an 18-year-old Frum Lakewood girl, stated that she was assaulted by an unidentified man while walking down a section of the rail road tracks between Lawrence Avenue and East County Line Road.
“According to the victim, the man had stopped and asked her for the time,” Detective Sergeant Greg Staffordsmith says. “After providing it to him, the suspect continued on his way. A few moments later she reported that the same man had grabbed her from behind. She began to scream and kick the man causing him to flee the area.”
The suspect is described as a Hispanic male approximately 5’03” in his late 20’s, with short hair, wearing a black tee shirt and a black backpack.
An investigation is being conducted by Officer Nathan Reyes. Anyone with information is urged to contact him at 732-363-0200 ext. 5345.
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Please don’t walk down the railroad tracks! They are not safe! Thank G-d she got away!
I hope the young lady is okay and will fully recover.
The tracks is a regular populated area that pedestrians constantly cross!
Not to point fingers at anyone particular, do our nashim tzidkaniyos need to go around town fully made up? do our girls need to dress up as if they’re going to a chasuna every time they go to the grocery store?
some food for thought.
a gut yahr
That’s the most redicusious thing u can say “asdf” is constantly populated with Mexicans and it known not to be safe every few months there is a story that will happen there and everyone will freak out . IT IS NOT SAFE TO WALK THERE IT IS A CLOSED AREA don’t encourage ppl to walk there and then when the next story happens….
i agree w asdf. Just because there was once a car crash does that mean no one should drive in cars ?!?!?!?!? so many people in the park ave/ twin oaks area area need to use the tracks daily to get to places. The answer isn’t to stop using the tracks but to make that area safer!
Sneezer- the way a woman dresses is NO EXCUSE for anyone to accuse them of bringing this on themselves. Sick people in this world and to blame the women is even more sickening. The point that should be made is be careful where you walk especially walking alone. May GOD watch over her.
Dito to Mike…
Comment by sneezer lacks common sence.
While the comment is totally irrelevant in this case, he may be right in the general sence.
What a brave girl so much courage
Sneezer,
Are you for real? First of all, I don’t commonly see girls and women in the grocery store dressed like they’re at a chasunah. Wonder where you’re shopping. Furthermore, we have very detailed hilchos tznius established by gedolim of past generations, none of which include not dressing nicely. Lastly, to indicate that the girl is in any way responsible for being attacked is both wrongheaded and insensitive. The problem here is a sick man, not an irresponsible bas yisrael.
I saw the girl, she was in no way dressed up to go to a wedding. She looked like a regular lakewood girl dressed in a very refined way.
She was dressed very tzniusdig not flashy didn’t even have a smartphone is a very modest young women beloved and alwase volunteering to do chesed it’s just a sick Hispanic guy that saw a opportunity to mug the innocent girl
She wasn’t actually walking on the train tracks like people do, but she was crossing over the train tracks like any normal person would do. People saw, I’m not sure why no one did anything… But we don’t judge