Woman raped on NYC subway platform, MTA employees ignore her pleas for help

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I’m way late to this, but I thought it was worth posting anyway. A woman has brought a lawsuit against against NYC’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority after she was raped on a train platform three years ago and no one helped her.

And the victim, now 25, told the Daily News this weekend that she forgives her attacker (“I know he was sick in the head”), but not the token booth clerk clerk at the 21st Street station, “I can’t forgive those five seconds when I stared into his eyes, screaming for help, imploring him with my tears and all I got back was a cold stare.”
The victim’s suit, filed two years ago, claims the MTA is negligent for not properly training its subway workers as well as lacking the proper communication tools between a booth and the platform below. As the woman, now 25, was being attacked, she says not only did the token booth clerk see her yet stay in his booth, but another conductor whose train entered during the attack saw her being assaulted and allowed his train to leave the station. The only action taken by both the clerk and the conductor respectively was to call into their command center for further help.

Apparently token booth clerks are not supposed to leave their booths, but I have a hard time believing he couldn’t have done anything.

When asked in a pre-trial deposition why he didn’t try to at least scare away the attacker by informing him that police were on their way, he said, “I did not even think about it.” He says that when the woman was taken out of his view to the platform for the ten minutes that followed, he did “nothing really. I was just waiting for the police.”

This absolutely terrifies me to my core.