She said it was rape. He said it was romance.
A hulking Brooklyn drifter accused of choking and sexually assaulting a young Williamsburg woman claims she invited him home and asked him for sex, prosecutors said yesterday.
Laye Kaba, 31, allegedly followed his 23-year-old victim into her Kent Avenue apartment building early last Saturday, then touched her breasts before pouncing on her, court documents said.
“He took out the condom, he began to have sex with her, and she began to scream,” Assistant District Attorney Ileane Spinner said at Kaba’s arraignment in Brooklyn Criminal Court yesterday.
But Kaba, of East New York, told investigators a different story, claiming that “she told him he was a bastard for not having sex with her,” a law-enforcement source said.
He did not speak at his brief arraignment.
The 6-foot Kaba told investigators he noticed the victim drunkenly swerving as she walked early last Saturday morning and told her someone was following her, law-enforcement sources said.
Kaba said she dropped her bag and spilled its contents, and he helped her and escorted her home. He claimed she hugged him and invited him into her building, where she asked him to pick her up and have sex with her, the sources said.
“He denies that there was anything that was forcible and he left long before the cops got there,” said defense attorney Steven Kliman.
The woman gave investigators a radically different account: she did allow Kaba to walk her home, but said that once they reached her lobby, he pulled down her tights and tried to rape her.
The woman’s landlord called 911 after he saw the attack on a security camera.
Edited surveillance footage released by the NYPD shows a man identified as Kaba moving to hug a woman in a lobby, then some kind of dispute between the two, then the man leaving through the front door.
Cops found Kaba by searching nearby homeless shelters.
Someone staying at an East Williamsburg shelter recognized him and cops and collared him when he went to pick up his mail at the shelter where he used to live, police sources said.