A homeless man beat and raped a woman inside a Manhattan church — a “sickening” attack that ended only when a hero priest intervened, she claims in a lawsuit.
The terrifying ordeal began Jan. 30, 2019, when the 68-year-old victim, who lives nearby Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Hamilton Heights, noticed the lights were off, which was “abnormal.”
So the woman, identified in the legal filing only as “Jane Doe,” went to check, found the Catholic church’s doors open, called out, and was suddenly accosted.
The alleged attacker was a man who had hung around the church before and “exposed his genitals to older women,”
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