A drunken gang of men who sexually assaulted and
robbed seven women in New York City's Central Park on Sunday brought back the
dark days of the city's crime-ridden past, and at least two victims are
wondering why cops were nowhere to be found during the daylight attacks.
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seven women who were assaulted — and videotaped — Sunday in
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The mother of a 16-year-old Long Island girl who was attacked with a female
friend has complained that police officers did nothing to help her daughter when
the teenager first told the police she had been knocked down and robbed. A
second officer, the mother told the New York Times, directed the girls to
an ambulance.
A second victim, Peyton Bryant, said she complained about the out-of-control
mob three times to three different police officers Sunday evening, but that
police ignored her each time. Bryant was rollerblading through the park around
6:15 p.m. Sunday when a group of about 50 men doused her with beer and water,
dragged her to the ground and began ripping off her shorts. After about five
minutes, Bryant was rescued by someone in the crowd, the Times reported.
Police arrested and charged two men, David Rowe, 24, of Hempstead, and
Tremayne Bain, 23, of Brooklyn, with robbery and sexual abuse, but are still
looking for the other assailants. They are being held on $10,000 bail each. The
suspects were identified by another victim, an 18-year-old English tourist who
was viciously assaulted, fondled and robbed of $200.
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victims allege they complained several times to police but no
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The gang of about 50 men smelled of alcohol and marijuana, the victims
reported, and were squirting people with water guns filled with water and beer,
the victims reported. The attacks occurred on Central Park South, near the tony
Plaza hotel and the famous Central Park Zoo, following the National Puerto Rican
Day Parade.
"They were trying to pull my top up, and at the same time guys were
trying to pull my shorts down," the English tourist told WPIX-TV on Monday.
"I was touched everywhere, and it was really humiliating. There must have
been 14 guys touching me, just trying to take my clothes off."
Police eventually did come to the rescue of a young French couple on their
honeymoon when the gang restrained the husband while they stripped the wife
naked and stole her jewelry. The couple fled down Central Park South until they
found a police officer. At that time, police called for reinforcements.
Suspects were being identified by amateur videotapes from the cameras of
bystanders.
The assaults came on a particularly violent weekend in New York City, during
which six people were killed and 59 others stabbed or shot as temperatures
soared past 90 degrees Saturday and Sunday.
But Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and police commissioner Howard Safir were quick to
defend the city's crime rate and the performance of the police.
"It's unrealistic to assume that police officers can be everywhere at
every time, at all times, particularly when they are dealing with a
parade," Giuliani said, pointing out that the crime rate in Central Park
had dropped dramatically.
"If I put 10,000 cops in Central Park, we couldn't cover every single
area," Safir said.
— The Associated Press contributed to this report
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