April 26, 2008

Elderly Woman 'Aggressively' Beaten (Boston, USA)

By Jessica Van Sack and Jessica Fargen
Boston Herald

April 24, 2008

Boston police are investigating whether a lunatic is preying on the elderly after the attempted rape of an 88-year-old woman in her Hyde Park apartment - a stone’s throw from a precinct station and just days after an 86-year-old man was assaulted in the same neighborhood.

“What kind of creature would attack an 88-year-old woman?” said neighbor Yahya Kareem, 63, of the brazen early-morning assault. “This is a sick thing.”

At about 4 a.m. yesterday, a suspect “aggressively” beat and attempted to rape an 88-year-old woman in the Boston Housing Authority’s Malone Apartments in Hyde Park, a 100-person complex for the elderly and disabled.

“She attempted to fight,” said BPD Superintendent Bruce Holloway, later adding, “It’s a horrible case.”

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SOURCE: theBostonHerald
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