A stranger broke into an East Village woman’s apartment, raped her, robbed her and left her bound with duct tape in a horrific attack, police and sources said Sunday.
After spending Friday night at the Knitting Factory, a Brooklyn concert venue, the 20-year-old woman was fast asleep in her East 14th Street apartment when she said she was jolted awake around 2:30 a.m. Saturday, cops and sources said.
She opened her eyes to find a masked, black-clad stranger towering over her in bed, she told cops, according to police sources.
“Shut up and do what I say or I’ll point something at you,” she recalled the creep saying.
The brute then ordered her to lie still and keep quiet as he raped her, police said.
Once he finished, he demanded to know how much money was in the woman’s bank account, “because I need $1,000,” he told her, according to sources.
When the traumatized woman said that she didn’t have that much, the assailant angrily bound her with duct tape, before leaving with her bank card, laptop and cell phone, sources said.
The woman managed to slip free of the duct tape once her attacker was gone, then ran to a nearby restaurant where someone called 911, police said.
She was treated at Beth Israel Hospital.
Detectives were investigating the alleged attack on Sunday, but hampered by the woman’s abrupt decision to stop cooperating, authorities said. The apartment also showed no signs of forced entry, sources said.
“Oh my God. That’s terrible,” said one tenant in the building, who did not want her name published. “That doesn’t make me happy at all because I am here alone this week and I’m pregnant.”