"Prosecutors said the alleged predator, who was out on parole for a 2013 robbery conviction, grabbed the preteen in the lobby of her Cooper Houses building on Morgan Avenue near Jackson Street Thursday night, growling "I need you to come with me, or I'll shoot you." McMichael - who was previously nabbed for a violent 2019 Staten Island rape - dragged the young girl into a stairwell and shoved her to the ground before committing the heinous sexual assault, prosecutors said."
""An eyewitness encountered them and saw the defendant with no pants on, and the complainant, who made an outcry for help," Brooklyn Assistant District Attorney Jordan Rossman said during the arraignment. "The defendant fled. The eyewitness brought the complainant upstairs to her family's apartment where her mother was, and the mother saw the child bleeding from her legs." Rossman said the distraught mother called the police and took her daughter to the hospital in stable condition."
A 12-year-old girl was allegedly grabbed in the lobby of her Cooper Houses building and threatened with a gun to force her into a stairwell. The suspect, 27-year-old Eric McMichael, allegedly dragged the girl inside, assaulted her and fled when an eyewitness arrived. The eyewitness brought the bleeding child to her family, and the mother called police and took the girl to a hospital in stable condition. McMichael was identified from nearby laundromat surveillance and arrested after a parole officer recognized him. The arraignment drew an emotional courtroom outburst and new criminal charges against McMichael.
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