Man Arrested For Sexually Assaulting Two Women At Occupy Wall Street
LatestToday a Brooklyn man was arrested after allegedly sexually assaulting two women in Zuccotti Park. Crimes happen everywhere and the alleged assaults don’t diminish the message of the Occupy protests, but the incidents do raise more questions about how sex crimes are being handled within the encampments.
The Wall Street Journal reports that 25-year oold Tonye Iketubosin was arrested today after two women told the NYPD that he sexually assaulted them. A 17-year-old says she asked Iketubosin to help her set up her tent on Monday, October 24. The next morning she found him in the tent and he refused to leave. Then he groped her and she pushed him away. An 18-year-old woman from Massachusetts says she got into an argument with her tentmate early on Saturday morning. Iketubosin let her sleep in his tent, and when she woke up later he was taking her pants off. She says she told him to stop and then he raped her. Iketubosin has been charged withs third-degree sexual abuse over the groping incident and charges related tot the alleged rape are pending.