A New York sex offender accused of molesting and brutalizing his 81-year-old neighbor used to help her with groceries and open the building’s gate for her, the victim has revealed
Early morning, Tuesday, September 27, Thomas Johnson from Brooklyn, New York forced his way into his neighbor's house, choked and knocked her unconscious in an attack that left her bruised and bloodied with a broken jaw, a broken foot and scars across her body, the Ney York Police Department said on Wednesday, September 28.
Johnson, 50, was charged with ass@ult, strangulation and burglary, but the charges could be upgraded if authorities confirm the victim’s r@pe allegations.
The woman — whose name is being withheld for privacy reasons, said she was s€xually assaulted, adding that she was unconscious during parts of the attack.
Police said she was not fully clothed when she was rushed to the hospital from her apartment .She said doctors who examined her and that investigators were awaiting test results before adding additional criminal charges.
“I’m still spitting up blood,” the woman said, a day after the vicious attack, to NY Daily News. “He didn’t say a word. He knocked me down on the ground and strangled me. He jammed his fingers down my throat so I couldn’t scream. I was knocked unconscious. I believe he r@ped me.”
Cops said the attack unfolded around 1 a.m., when the victim was awakened by noises and saw her upstairs neighbor in her living room.
“I can’t believe this would happen from him,” she said. “He knows I live here alone. Oh my God, how could he do this?
“He didn’t do it to a stranger,” she added. “He knows me.”
Johnson lives upstairs with his mother and sister. The victim said the mother and sister came to her assistance after the attack, but that the sister claimed the elderly woman fell out of the bathtub.
“I said, ‘No, he attacked me,’” she said. Johnson has nine prior arrests, the most recent for strangulation in August 2021.
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