Bed-Stuy sex offender sentenced for 2016 rape near Bushwick subway station
A 54-year-old man and registered sex offender has been sentenced to 50 years to life in prison for sexually assaulting a woman in 2016 as she walked home from a Bushwick subway station.
According to trial testimony, at around 2:45 a.m. on August 16, 2016, the victim, 27, exited the J train Kosciuszko Street subway station when the defendant – 54-year-old Michael Mann of Bed-Stuy – grabbed the woman from behind, placed a knife to her back, demanded money and threatened to stab her. The woman gave Mann $5 and offered him the rest of her belongings, at which point he cut her clothing with a knife and raped her.
Mann also told the victim that he’d seen her before, knew where she lived and would kill her if she called the police. The woman went home, told a friend about the attack and was taken to Wyckoff Heights Medical Center.