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Teen Arrested for Raping 82-Year-Old Woman, Police Say

By Aidan Gardiner | July 17, 2015 8:52am | Updated on July 19, 2015 9:01pm
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BROOKLYN — A teen was arrested Friday morning, four days after police say he raped an elderly woman and held her captive at knifepoint for two hours in her Sheepshead Bay home.

Asa Robert, 18, entered the 82-year-old woman's home as she swept the street outside about 1:40 a.m Monday., NYPD officials said.

He attacked her when she came back inside, pulling a knife and demanding money, police said.

He raped her, ransacked the home and fled about 4 a.m. with an umbrella and a bag of clothes, police said.

The woman was evaluated at Kings County Hospital, police said.

Robert eluded police until early Friday morning when he was arrested in Bedford-Stuyvesant, NYPD officials said. Charges against him were still pending.

Robert was arrested for robbery last year, police said.