A cowardly creep tried to cover his face from cameras Friday evening after cops busted him for allegedly raping a 12-year-old lady within the stairwell of a Brooklyn public housing constructing a day earlier.
Eric McMichael, 27, sporting a grey plaid shirt, grey shorts, and thick white tights, hunched his torso ahead to dodge the flashing cameras as cops dragged him out of Brooklyn’s Particular Victims precinct and hauled him off to jail on rape and intercourse abuse prices for viciously attacking the younger lady.
The accused predator approached the preteen and grabbed her as she entered her Cooper Homes constructing on Morgan Avenue close to Jackson Road in Williamsburg round 5:45 p.m. Thursday, police mentioned.
The brute, an entire stranger, advised the teen, “I’m going to violate you” as he shoved her to the bottom and ordered her to bend over earlier than finishing up the heinous sexual assault, sources mentioned.
The Brooklyn perv then ran off when one other particular person appeared within the stairwell, police and sources mentioned.
The younger sufferer was taken to an area hospital in secure situation.
Police — who had launched photographs of the violent fiend whereas searching him down — arrested McMichael Friday afternoon and charged him with two counts of rape, housebreaking, two counts of sexual abuse, and endangering the welfare of a kid.
McMichael has 4 prior convictions, together with rape and housebreaking in 2019, police mentioned, in keeping with NBC Information 4.
He was additionally hit with grand larceny and theft prices in 2023.
