Rapist Who Stalked Bushwick Straphanger Sentenced: Brooklyn DA

BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN — The registered sex offender who stalked and raped a woman on a Bushwick sidewalk has been sentenced to 50 years in prison, prosecutors announced Thursday.

Michael Mann, 54, could face a life in prison for attacking a woman he stalked from the Kosciuszko Street subway station the night of August 16, 2016, according to the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office.

The 27-year-old woman was walking home at about 2:45 a.m. when Mann grabbed her, put a knife to her back and demanded she hand over her money, said prosecutors.

Mann did not let the woman go when she handed over $5 and offered him the rest of her things, said prosecutors. Instead, he kissed her, groped her, cut her clothing and raped her.

Mann — a registered sex offender from Bed-Stuy — then told the terrified woman he knew where she lived and would kill her if she called police before running away, prosecutors said.

A friend took the Bushwick woman to Wyckoff Hospital where doctors gave her a sexual assault evidence collection kit, prosecutors said.

Mann was arrested the next day when police — who were responding to a 911 call about a fight in a home on Stanhope Street near Bushwick Avenue — recognized him from a description in the official report, said prosecutors.

Investigators found that his DNA matched semen found on his victim’s bathing suit and that he was wearing the same sneakers, jeans and hat that he wore the night before, prosecutors said.

A Brooklyn Supreme Court jury found Mann guilty of predatory sexual assault, sexual abuse, robbery as a sexually motivated felony and criminal possession of weapon in March, said prosecutors.

Mann now faces between 50 years and life in prison, according to prosecutors.

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