GET HIM:
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn passes out fliers in the Village yesterday seeking info on the attack suspect. (Seth Gottfried)
GET HIM:
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn passes out fliers in the Village yesterday seeking info on the attack suspect.
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn has joined the manhunt for a sick pervert who tried to rape a masseuse after a brutal beating in the Village last week.
“This attack is just a horrible attack,” the council speaker declared yesterday as she helped pass out fliers with an image of the sex fiend at the West Fourth Street subway station. “If you saw anything or if the image looks familiar, please help the police apprehend this man.”
The speaker hopes the public can help track down the cruel creep, who launched his attack last Friday after walking into the Body Work salon, located on Washington Place, and asking for a massage.
“The perpetrator gained access to the business by posing as a customer,” Quinn said.
The suspect went into a massage room and waited for the 41-year-old female masseuse to go in.
Suddenly, he attacked, beating the woman until she had blacked out and attempting to rape her, sources said. The thug fled when she regained consciousness, sources added.
He also stole an iPhone, an iPad and $200 in cash, law-enforcement sources said.
Quinn said she wants the victim to know that “the community of Greenwich Village is praying for her and rallying behind her.”
Cops say the suspect is a 6-foot-tall black or Hispanic male in his early 20s with a medium build. He entered wearing a dark Kangol-style hat, a dark T-shirt, camouflage shorts and a backpack.
“We’re asking if anyone knows anything. It’s a real community effort,” said David Gruber, chairman of Community Board 2. “This community is always concerned. It’s the second in a week. In this neighborhood, it’s unusual.”
“It is critical as a community we look out for one another,” Quinn said at the event yesterday.
A woman was also raped in her residence on Cornelia Street on Aug. 15 after a man approached her on Sixth Avenue. Posing as a good Samaritan, he offered to help the intoxicated woman into her apartment, law-enforcement sources said.
She accepted, and then he pushed his way in when he got to her door and sodomized her on the couch, sources added.
Investigators are using video surveillance to try to identify the suspect.
“I am surprised; we generally feel safe in our streets in the Village,” said William Kelley, executive director of the Village Alliance, the local business-improvement district. “People need to stay aware. We just have to stay vigilant.”
The suspect in the Aug. 15 rape is described as a middle-aged Asian man about 5-foot-9, sources said.
There have been 10 rapes this year in the Sixth Precinct, which encompasses Greenwich Village.
They’re down 9.1 percent for the year, through Aug. 19.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1.800.577.TIPS.