Man Convicted Of Groping Actress, Shoving Her Onto Train Tracks

WEST VILLAGE, NY — A Manhattan Supreme Court jury convicted a man of hurling an actress onto the subway tracks at a West Village station after he groped her breast and crotch, but acquitted the pervert of attempted murder charges, reported the Daily News.

The jury found Kimani Stephenson, 25, guilty of first-degree assault and sex abuse, for which he faces up to 25 years behind bars, for shoving Bonnie Currie, 23, into the tracks of the 14th Street F station on April 14, 2017.

After a two day deliberation jurors did not convict Stephenson of the top charge because the brutal act was not premeditated, but rage induced, the jury's foreman told the newspaper.

“There was no argument, proof or any evidence he had intent in the moment to kill her even though we all got convinced he was the perpetrator,” foreman Dmytro Zhuravtsky, 44, told The News.

Jurors spurned Stephenson's defense that another man attacked Currie. The actress suffered ligament damage to her shoulder, an injury to her sternum and a broken wrist that requires a permanent metal plate and screws, The News reported.

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