Man sentenced to 115 years for raping elderly woman inside her Brighton Beach home
A 20-year-old Brooklyn man has been sentenced to 115 years in prison for raping and assaulting an 82-year-old woman inside her Brighton Beach home in 2015, announced Acting District Attorney Eric Gonzalez last week.
According to trial testimony, at around 2 a.m. on July 13, 2015, the defendant – Asa Robert – slipped inside the victim’s apartment near Brighton 11th Street when she was outside taking out the garbage. After the victim went to bed, she heard a noise and discovered Robert hiding in her bedroom, at which time the defendant choked her and forced her onto the bed.
He then held a knife to the woman’s face, demanded money and punched her in the chest, before tying her hands and later raping and sodomizing her. He then fled the residence with a bag containing some of the woman’s belongings.