Re: Ape Arrested For Mugging 101-Year-Old Woman

On Apr 28, 8:43 am, WhereYoM...@home.net (Way Back Jack) wrote:
> And you bleeding heart weenies still insist that they're human.
> _____________
>
> EXCERPTS FROM ARTICLE: The mugger, who looms over her and is holding
> onto a bicycle, pretends to help her get through the vestibule. Then
> he turns to grab Morat's head, delivers three hard punches to her face
> and swipes her purse. The dazed victim tries to reach for her purse
> when the mugger hits her again, pushing her and her walker to the
> ground.
>
> (...)They did not have an address for Rhodes, who was also accused of
> robbing an 85-year-old woman the same day Morat was attacked, police
> said.
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>
> Picture of ape:
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070428/...y_woman_robbed
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>
> Man arrested in mugging of woman, 101 By TOM HAYS, Associated Press
> Writer
> Sat Apr 28, 6:36 AM ET
>
> NEW YORK - She was brutally mugged in a crime that outraged New
> Yorkers, but the 101-year-old victim said the attack hasn't
> intimidated her.
>
> "I'm not fearful at all," Rose Morat said Friday as police made an
> arrest in the case. "Whatever is going to happen is going to happen."
>
> Jack Rhodes, 44, was arrested on charges of robbery, grand larceny,
> burglary and assault, police said. They did not have an address for
> Rhodes, who was also accused of robbing an 85-year-old woman the same
> day Morat was attacked, police said.
>
> "I am so sorry for what happened," Rhodes said as he was led out of a
> police station, the New York Post reported Saturday.
>
> Police began questioning Rhodes after noticing he matched a photo of a
> person wanted for questioning in robberies of women in Queens. He was
> initially held on a charge of possession of a crack pipe.
>
> There was no telephone listing for Rhodes in the New York metropolitan
> area, and police did not know whether he was represented by a lawyer.
>
> "If it's the right man, it's wonderful," Morat told The Associated
> Press when reached Friday by phone.
>
> Morat's March 4 holdup was captured on a surveillance tape. It shows
> Morat, who was using a walker, trying to leave her apartment building
> to go to church.
>
> The mugger, who looms over her and is holding onto a bicycle, pretends
> to help her get through the vestibule. Then he turns to grab Morat's
> head, delivers three hard punches to her face and swipes her purse.
> The dazed victim tries to reach for her purse when the mugger hits her
> again, pushing her and her walker to the ground.
>
> He got away with $33 and Morat's house keys. She suffered a fractured
> cheekbone and spent time in the hospital.
>
> Morat told the AP on Friday that she's feeling better, though her
> doctor has told her to try to slow down.
>
> She previously declared that if she'd been just a bit younger, she'd
> have gone after the guy.
>
> The Glenridge senior center in Ridgewood, Queens, fielded a flurry of
> calls after the crime and said it was bringing back self-defense
> courses for the elderly.
>
> The NYPD assigned dozens of detectives to the case and showed the
> surveillance video to every uniformed officer in the city.
>
> The state Senate's Republican majority proposed tougher penalties for
> assaulting an elderly person. The bill, offered by Sen. Martin Golden
> of Brooklyn, would make a felony of assaulting anyone more than 70
> years old. Currently, the crime is a misdemeanor, punishable by no
> more than a year in jail.
>
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