Suspect who beat woman in Midtown bar charged with assault, attempted rape
Last Updated: 10:04 PM, March 12, 2010
Posted: 5:29 PM, March 12, 2010
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The man police hunted for savagely beating a nurse in a Hell's Kitchen bar bathroom after she dissed him on the dance floor has been charged.
Chief police spokesman Paul Browne says 30-year-old Mbarek Lafrem, of Norwood, Pa., was charged with assault and attempted rape. A phone number listed for him in Norwood was disconnected.
Browne says Lafrem was working at a midtown construction site and was staying at a hotel near the bar. He says Lafrem's co-workers contacted authorities after they saw him in a video released by police.
The victim, a 29-year-old pediatric nurse at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, suffered fractures to her nose, eye socket and skull and required 50 stitches to her face in the vicious assault at the pub early Thursday morning.
Lafrem admitted he had tried to cut in while the woman was dancing with another man but she rebuffed him. He said he was drunk and angry, and when she went to the bathroom, he followed her in and brutally beat her, the sources said.
She was found lying unconscious with her pants down.
Although a rape kit came back negative, police are treating it as an attempted sexual assault.
Police had put out video footage of Lafrem walking out of the bar at 2:17 a.m. and shaking his hand as if he had injured it. He was also captured on video at a nearby store minutes later.
The victim, who underwent surgery at Weill Cornell Medical Center was recovering with her family yesterday.
"[The family] wishes to express their sincere gratitude for the outpouring of support they have received," the hospital said in a statement.
With AP
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Comments (31)
Post Your CommentJoe G
03/14/2010 10:19 PM
Please don't show your ignorance people! The man is a Muslim. It's part of Muslim culture to beat women and rape children. As a multicultural and diverse country, we have to accept this culture as superior to our own. Otherwise we're racist.
Ahksehl
03/13/2010 6:35 PM
He was drunk and he probably mistook her for his mother.She always let him go all the way beforen. He wasn't used to this, it enraged him.
joe_public1
03/13/2010 10:33 AM
Sickola:
I guess you and buddy Mbarek would make a great and loving couple in the same cell together..!!
elsupremo
03/13/2010 8:27 AM
Bubba get ready to slam some middle eastern ahole! Hurt him all night. Hey Lafrem where did u get your manners? Don't u know better than to cut in on another guy?? and by the way this other guy where was he to defend her? Chivarly is dead get well soon ms.
Hansen Brookhaven
03/13/2010 6:01 AM
MENSA in pure operation once again showing their stuff in the comments area of New York's premiere meeting sight for the Illuminati, The New York Post!!!
floridian
03/13/2010 5:34 AM
No female should ever get beaten for not wanting to dance with a creep,or no other reason. Not even a SLAP in the face.Gee Sicola I hope there is no one looking up to you, if they are they need to change their role model
floridian
03/13/2010 5:27 AM
No man should ever beat a woman for no reason at all, not ev
justanotherengine
03/13/2010 3:33 AM
"Suspect in custody" NICE !