Chaos erupted in a Big Apple courtroom Saturday night as the family of the 12-year-old girl allegedly raped in the stairwell of a Brooklyn housing-project building came to blows with the twisted homeless creep accused of carrying out the horrific attack.
Eric McMichael, 27, was arraigned in Brooklyn Criminal Court and hit with a slew of new charges for viciously attacking the young girl and threatening to shoot her if she didn’t follow him into the Williamsburg stairwell Thursday night, prosecutors revealed.
But during the brute’s court hearing, many of the victim’s loved ones who packed the courtroom shouted and cursed at the suspect and judge before being escorted out.
“Another outburst and everyone is leaving,” Judge Orville Reynolds warned the enraged crowd.
Prosecutors said the alleged predator, who was out on parole for a 2013 robbery conviction, grabbed the preteen in the lobby of her Cooper Houses building on Morgan Avenue near Jackson Street Thursday night, growling “I need you to come with me, or I’ll shoot you.”
McMichael – who was previously nabbed for a violent 2019 Staten Island rape – dragged the young girl into a stairwell and shoved her to the ground before committing the heinous sexual assault, prosecutors said.
“An eyewitness encountered them and saw the defendant with no pants on, and the complainant, who made an outcry for help,” Brooklyn Assistant District Attorney Jordan Rossman said during the arraignment.
“The defendant fled. The eyewitness brought the complainant upstairs to her family’s apartment where her mother was, and the mother saw the child bleeding from her legs.”
Rossman said the distraught mother called the police and took her daughter to the hospital in stable condition. --->READ MORE HERE
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| Kerry Burke / New York Daily News |
A suspect was arrested late Friday in the rape of a 12-year-old girl inside a Brooklyn apartment building hours after the girl’s mother told the Daily News she wanted “justice” for her traumatized daughter.
“My baby is in shock,” the victim’s mother told The News in an exclusive interview.
“My daughter is a dancer. She sings. She does hair. She’s only in the seventh grade,” the distraught mom lamented.
“She’s my baby, and my daughter will never be the same,” said the mother, who The News is not naming to protect the victim’s privacy.
“I want justice,” she added.
Police released images of the rape suspect in the hope someone recognized him.
Late Friday, police arrested Eric McMichael, 27, and charged him with multiple counts of rape and sexual abuse, as well as burglary and child endangerment. McMichael lives in Greenpoint, about two miles from the crime scene, according to police.
The child was heading down the stairs in her building on Morgan Ave. and Skillman in East Williamsburg, which is part of NYCHA’s Cooper Park Houses, at around 5:45 p.m. Thursday when the stranger grabbed her, cops said Friday. The assailant told the child he was going to “violate” her, police said.
The stranger was already in the stairwell and quickly overpowered her as she walked past him on her way to a local store.
“I’m going to violate you,” he told the girl as he pushed her to the ground and attacked her, authorities said.
The rapist ran off after the horrific attack, and 911 was called, officials said. EMS rushed the child to an area hospital for treatment. Detectives assigned to the NYPD’s Special Victims Unit were investigating. --->READ MORE HERE
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