DNA tests have revealed the identity of the would-be Central Park rapist whose intended victim fought off the attack with the help of her dog, law-enforcement sources said yesterday.
Cops found some of the attacker’s blood on the woman after the May 12 attack, and a crime-lab test resulted in a match.
The 32-year-old suspect, who lives in The Bronx, was arrested several days later for an unrelated sex crime and is in jail, the sources said. He has not yet been charged for the park attack.
The fiend targeted a 25-year-old ex-model who was walking her dog on the Woodlands Path near 102nd Street at 8:30 a.m.
She fought back furiously – kicking the knife-wielding attacker.
“I was not getting raped – no matter what,” she later told The Post.
Her 60-pound pooch, Cookie, joined the battle and bit the 200-pound sex fiend three times.
The normally timid dog “turned into a Braveheart and did something he would have never done before,” the woman said.
The assault took place about 200 yards from the site of the notorious “wolfpack” attack on a Central Park jogger in 1989.