A 73-year-old woman was raped and beaten in Central Park just before noon on Wednesday, the police said, and the attacker’s assault was preceded by a chilling question: “Do you remember me?”
The woman, a bird-watcher who goes to the park every day, had indeed encountered the man before. About a week and a half ago, she had seen him masturbating in the Ramble area and taken a photograph of him. The man demanded that the woman delete the photo at the time, and when she refused, he tried unsuccessfully to take her camera, thePolice Department’s chief spokesman, Paul J. Browne, said. Late Wednesday, thepolice said investigators were questioning of person of interest.
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De-Ball him!
That ought to learn him!

Updated.
Investigators were questioning a person of interest onThursday in the rapeand beating of a 73-year-old woman in Central Park, the police said.
The attack happenedjust before noon on Wednesday, the police said, and the attacker’s assault was preceded by a chilling question: “Do you remember me?”
The woman, a bird-watcher who goes to the park every day, had indeed encountered the man before. About a week and a half ago, she had seen him masturbating in the Ramble area and taken a photograph of him. The man demanded that the woman delete the photo at the time, and when she refused, he tried unsuccessfully to take her camera, thePolice Department’s chief spokesman, Paul J. Browne, said.
Around 11:50 a.m., the woman was birding along a wooded path near West 74th Street andStrawberry Fields when the man, whom she described as white, stocky and clean shaven, with a Russian or Ukrainian accent and in his 40s or 50s, appeared again.
After asking her if she remembered him, the suspect threw the woman tothe ground, raped her and stole her backpack, which contained a digital camera with a professional lens. He also broke her wristwatch while attempting to steal it. It was not clear if the camera was the one that she had used earlier or if she had kept the photos from the earlier encounter, which she never reported to the police, Mr. Browne said.
The woman was taken to a hospital, where she was interviewed by investigators with the Special Victims Unit, as police officers spread out across the park in search of the suspect.
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Another photo of the Central Park rapesuspect.
Eric Ozawa, a writinginstructor at New York University, said that he had been bird-watching in the park when he saw a person’s legs sticking out onto thewood-chip path, andat first thought the person was sleeping.Then he saw the woman sit up on thepath, which is lined with shrubs and trees.
The woman had mulch sticking to parts of her face, which was badly bruised, Mr. Ozawa said. Her forehead was swollen; the area around her right eye was turning blue. She waved him over and told him that she had been raped, he said.
Mr. Ozawa said he called 911 and handed her the phone.
“She was very lucid, given the circumstances,” Mr. Ozawa said. “She was able to describe what had happened.”
But she struggled to provide the dispatcher with her exact park location, so she handed the phone back to Mr. Ozawa, who then guided uniformed officers to the victim,he said.
“I went and got them and brought them over,” Mr. Ozawa said. “They were in a different part of Strawberry Fields.”
Mr. Ozawa said that the area was crowded at the time.Just before reaching the path where he encountered the victim, he had threaded through a cluster of tourists at the nearby “Imagine” memorial,to John Lennon, he said.
“For something like this to happen in broad daylight is particularly horrifying, and to someone of her age,” Mr. Ozawa said. “It took me a while, I think, to really register what had happened. It was such a shock. The park has seemedso safe for so long.”
Mr. Ozawa said he had arrived on the path just moments after the attack. “I wish I had been ableto do something to stop it, if only I had come a little earlier.”
Police officials released two blurry images of the suspect, captured by surveillance cameras;he appeared to be wearing a dark-colored polo shirt and light-colored sneakers, and was carrying two knapsacks.
Andres Fontanez, a maintenance operator for the park who often works around Strawberry Fields, said detectives showed him a photoof a white man, possibly in his 30s or 40s with longish, dark hair. He said he thought he recognized the man as a Strawberry Fields regular, but could not be certain.
Mr. Fontanez said he also believed that heknew the victim, based on the police’sdescription of her. He described her as afrequent Strawberry Fields visitor and bird-watcher who had a favorite bench,and often pestered him to clean up more litter. He said he always addressedher as “Moms.”
“She’s a nice, old lady, she don’t bother no one,” he said. “She’s always in there, sitting down on the same bench, trying to make sure the park is as nice as it shouldbe.”

some cultures (not to be confused with nationality or religion or anything else) just dont view women as having much value,,,,

apparently this person belongs to one of them,,,

Another example of a stupid stupid woman. Taking pictures of a man masturbating and refusing to delete it?

Stupid stupid.

that ones not as clear to me

in a public place, with her camera

seems he was stupid to be masturbating there

I am addressing her stupid actions, not his.

People need to realize that we live in a dangerous world. You don't single handedly try to stop a gang of shoplifters without a weapon, and you don't take pictures of men masturbating in the park and refuse to delete them and expect no consequences for doing stupid things like that.

So you are saying that I shouldn't poke a near by grizzly bear with my fork?

You got it.!

Actually he wasn't Middle Eastern.............

Actually she is stupid for not turning it over to police immedietly. Personally if I saw someone doing that in a park he would be on the ground being held for the police.

Really? In over 14 years of doing what I do I have stopped nickel and dime shoplifters, multiple subjects at one time, ORC (Organised Retail Crime) Suspects, suspects who were wanted on some very serious charges, suspects who have had drugs (One had over 65 baloons of Heroin), weapons (Guns, knives, knuckles, spray, paintball guns, batons etc) and I have NEVER neaded a weapon to take anyone into custody. I have had multiple occasions where I have taken 3-4 people into custody at once and got them back into the office.

First of all, you are a security guard right? That's your job.

This was one girl against about six pretty tough looking guys.

No, a concerned citizen who wants to keep a predator from preying on and hurting an innocent person.

All it takes for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing ~ Edmund Burke

Security Guard? Not exactly. You should look into the differences. Security Guards job is to observe and report and not get involved.

So you saying a woman can't take care of themselves? Interesting.

And in my opinion anyone who observes a crime being committed and does nothing about it (I am not saying to stop the crime but reporting it, taking pictures, getting information to turn over to the police that could help identify the suspect, or step in if someone is getting hurt) they are just as guilty in my eyes as the person committing the crime.

Oh brother.

Is THAT really what you THINK I am saying?

Oh brother!


Apparently THIS particular woman COULD NOT take care of herself.

I said that if she really wants that kind of work she should go to the police academy. In the meantime, she was just stupid to get involved with a gang of thugs shoplifting.

I don't consider her to be a victim. I just consider her to be stupid.

Go poke a bear with a stick and try to steal one of her cubs and get mauled... and you are not a victim. You are stupid.

What does this old woman taking a picture of a sex offender beating his meat in a public park have anything to do with her taking a picture of six people stealing?