Tensions stay excessive at a Queens park the place a creep sexually assaulted a 13-year-old woman – and stays on the free, the topic of an enormous NYPD manhunt.
“It sucks because I always come here,” Queens dad Will De Jesus stated Sunday at Kissena Park, the place {the teenager} was molested after she and a pal had been pressured right into a secluded space by the suspect.
“I bring my daughter, my son,” stated De Jesus, 52. “It sucks to hear things like that. Trust me, I got five girls so I know it sucks. To find out something happened to my daughter like that – woof.”
His spouse, Jas Webb, known as the incident “unsettling.”
“I feel as if there’s a police presence here but I don’t ever see cops here except when it’s a holiday or something like that,” she stated. “There needs to be more vigilance present within a space like this.”
Cops blanketed the favored Flushing park following the Thursday afternoon, broad-daylight assault, and even supplied a $10,000 reward for the creep‘s seize.
NYPD brass known as the fugitive an “animal’ and stated some 60 cops had been deployed.
On Sunday, two uniformed cops guarded the doorway to the 235-acre park as locals loved the gentle and nice Father’s Day climate.
“They’ll probably keep it up until they find the guy, which will be soon,” one cop – usually assigned to the Bronx – informed The Submit. “We have half the detectives in Queens looking.”
He stated greater than 30 cops had been blanketing the park searching for the attacker.
The suspect approached the sufferer and her pal, a 13-year-old boy, round 3 p.m. Thursday and compelled them right into a secluded wooded space with a “machete-style” blade once they resisted, police stated.
He tied their fingers with shoelaces and molested the woman, NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny stated.
The sicko then stole their cellphones and informed them to attend 20 minutes after he fled, Kenny added.
The traumatized kids, who had gone to the park to play soccer, returned to their close by college after the assault and reported it, cops stated.
The suspect is a light-skinned man in his 20s with a heavy Spanish accent, has braces on his enamel and a tattoo of a boar or an analogous animal with purple eyes and purple horns on the left aspect of his chest, cops stated.
Whereas most locals stay cautious at Kissena, one couple who watched their 4-year-old journey her bike on the park on Sunday had been shocked to listen to of the horrific assault.
“We simply walked by and I stated, ‘Why are there so many cops here?’” said Lem Kieu, 42. “It doesn’t make sense. Now that you just inform me, it does. Shouldn’t they tell us?
“There’s this playground. There’s another playground over there,” he stated. “We come right here to let our child free, so to talk. Now figuring out that, we might second-guess letting her go additional [down the path].
“This is life. This is New York City and things like that happen, unfortunately.”
