“She was bleeding from her head and her chest,” said neighbor Dennis Naughton. Neighbors said that they saw the victim after the assault.
She ran outside for help, and they fled on foot. He was armed with a knife at the time and also strangled her, stabbed her in the chest, and slashed across her head. The younger male then brutally raped the woman in front of her daughter. When the two made their way upstairs looking for items to steal, they broke through the locked door and found the mother and her child hiding. The mother hid upstairs with her 4-year-old daughter. Instead, police said two males had broken into the Mastic Beach home through a kitchen window. when the 23-year-old mother heard noises downstairs at her home and assumed her husband had arrived home. The harrowing incident unfolded on April 19 at about 3:15 p.m. Police arrested a 14-year-old boy as a suspect in the brutal rape and stabbing of a mom in Long Island, New York.
