Metro

Sachs and sex add to insanity

It’s gone from simple chaos to sheer madness.

The violence and depravity continued to mount at the Occupy Wall Street protest yesterday, as cops busted 16 people for blocking the entrance to Goldman Sachs and an Alabama woman came forward to report yet another sick sex attack at Zuccotti Park.

Kara Demetropoulos, 20, a waitress and student from Mobile, told The Post she was groped Saturday night by a creep she met at McDonald’s who offered to share his tent with her and her three pals.

“I was staying overnight, it was very cold outside,” she said. “I was with three other guy friends, so I thought I was safe.

“And then, half an hour into being in the tent, while he thought I was asleep, he put his hand up my shirt.”

The terrified victim told the sleazy perv to stop and she and her friends left the tent.

“I’m pretty sure he thought I was asleep. He was kind of sneaky [and] I was mad, that’s now why we’re here,” said Demetropoulos, who never told cops about the incident, the latest in a series of sex assaults and other crimes at the filth-ridden tent city that have mostly gone unreported.

Later yesterday, 16 protesters were carted off from outside Goldman Sachs’ headquarters on Wall Street after they defiantly sat down, linked arms and blocked the entrance.

“They refused to move and sat down” despite repeated warnings, one cop said.

As they were led away, a few bystanders shouted “Shame!” and “The criminals are inside!”

Several of the demonstrators fought with cops, who bound the wrists of arrestees with plastic ties and loaded them into a van for the trip to the station house.

Three other protesters were arrested at Zuccotti for refusing to take off masks, including one man in a military uniform who said he was a Marine. Wearing masks during a protest is illegal.

Mayor Bloomberg, meanwhile, blasted protesters yesterday for choosing to police themselves — much like happened in Demetropoulos’ case — and doing a rather poor job of it.

He called their inaction “despicable” and “outrageous” and a threat to all law-abiding New Yorkers.

“When people in Zuccotti Park become aware of crimes, instead of calling the police, they form a circle around the perpetrator, chastise him or her and chase him or her out into the rest of the city to do who knows what to who knows whom,” Bloomberg said.

“Not reporting a violent crime, no matter where it takes place, really does endanger every New Yorker.”

Cops did get one sex-assault complaint this week, arresting OWS kitchen volunteer Tonye Iketubosin, 26, of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, for allegedly groping an 18-year-old woman in the park. He’s also a suspect in a rape.

Meanwhile, barriers that had been taken down Wednesday were put back up yesterday — except in front of Federal Hall and the Milk Street Cafe on Wall Street, where the owner had laid off 21 workers after business plunged 30 percent after the protests began.

“They were taken down. People marched in the streets, [they were] put up. We’ll try again. You got to obey the law,” Bloomberg said.

Matthew Cherry, spokesman for Brookfield Properties, which owns the park, declined to comment on the violence and whether it was time to ask the city to evict the masses.

But Bloomberg insisted the park owners are concerned about the developments.

“Brookfield is a part of this because this is private property. We have worked with Brookfield. They are very concerned. They are clearly worried about their liability, and we are dealing with them all the time,” Hizzoner said.

“It is one of these problems that there is no easy answer, but there is a right answer. And a right answer is allow people to protest, but at the same time enforce public safety — provide public safety and quality-of-life issues.”

Additional reporting by Laura Italiano, Lorena Mongelli, Frank Rosario and Larry Celona