Woman Recalls Coney Island Rape On July 4th — As Onlookers Laughed & Recorded

[Sugar Cookie]

A Brooklyn woman alleged she was raped on Coney Island while celebrating the Fourth of July — and bystanders just laughed and filmed instead of trying to save her.

The 25-year-old woman told CBS News she tripped over a walking mat on the beach around 3 a.m. that night while trying to escape a man with “bad vibes” marching menacingly toward her.

“He saw that I was on the floor and that’s when he put his face between my legs, and I started screaming and everyone started laughing and recording me,” said the Brooklyn native, who allowed herself to be identified in the hopes of finding her attacker. “Nobody helped. Nobody stopped.”

At one point, a light from a golf cart shone on her and her attacker — but the driver just drove off without intervening, said the woman, who has reported the attack to the NYPD, The Post confirmed.

When she managed to free herself and leave the beach, her assailant followed her down Stillwell Avenue and raped her, she said.

“He bent me over over here, and he raped me,” she told CBS, “I was just terrified, and I couldn’t fight back,” she said, saying there were also witnesses for the second part of her nightmarish ordeal.

The woman said she had arrived at the boardwalk around 11 p.m. Friday after the fireworks had finished. She shared video with CBS News showing a crowd of people standing around a bonfire before the attack.

She told News12 Brooklyn that she had been hanging out with a group of people she had just met — and the assailant was one of them.

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NYC woman recalls Coney Island rape on July 4th — as onlookers laughed and recorded

“Nobody helped. Nobody stopped,” 25-year-old Melissa Harris said.

nypost.com

 

[BuffettGirl]

Nightmare fuel! That's like seven of my worst fears all wrapped up in one nightmare...

 

[Kitsune Faye]

And this is why I went into the city for the 4th; them hoodboogers in the projects there are wild. Hope they find all who did this.

 

[Kleng]

Whoever has video of the attack but failed to report it can have charges filed against them for withholding evidence. Sucks to suck.