A man suspected of brutally beating a woman in a New York City bar restroom after she rejected his advances was taken into police custody Friday.
Chief police spokesman Paul Browne said the man had made statements implicating himself in the beating. The man was seen in a video walking down the sidewalk after the attack.
Mbarek Lafrem, 30, a construction worker was charged Friday night with assault and attempted rape.
The attack occurred around 2 a.m. Thursday at Social, a three-storey bar and lounge on Eighth Avenue in midtown Manhattan where the 29-year-old victim, a nurse, had gone with a friend, authorities said.
The woman told police that she had rebuffed attempts by the man to dance with her, said Browne. When she went to the women's restroom on the second floor, he followed her and burst into a stall.
The man beat the victim until she was unconscious. Her friend later found her in the stall and called police, believing she might have fallen.
The woman was hospitalized with a broken eye socket, broken jaw and other injuries. When she regained consciousness, she told hospital workers she had been attacked.
A phone message left at the bar was not immediately returned.
- Indian Journalist.
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