Posted on 01/27/2014 1:09:48 AM PST by moonshinner_09
'I sleep with one eye open': Woman, 37, who was 'raped by pizza delivery boy, 16, as her daughter slept beside her' opens up about the horrific attack she says ruined her life
A woman who was attacked and raped in her Manhattan apartment in 2012 has come forward to detail the horrific night a teenage pizza boy allegedly assaulted her as her 7-year-old daughter slept in the bed beside her. Kia Graves, 37, reveals that her life has been utterly turned upside down since the night Cesar Lucas, 17, is charged with slipping into her apartment and having his way with her while out on a run for his father's 10th Avenue pizza restaurant. 'I have nightmares thinking that he’s getting out of jail, and I wake up all the time making sure my door is locked,' said the shell-shocked mom. Unfortunately, her door was not locked that September night. Cesar Lucas was working as a delivery boy at Sal’s Pizza in the same Manhattan neighborhood as the woman’s luxury apartment building. He was delivering a pizza to the next-door flat when he noticed that the door was slightly ajar and allegedly entered the apartment. Graves, a former actress turned model agency employee, had gone to bed with her daughter an hour and a half before the alleged incident. It was the last time Grave says she's had a normal night's sleep. 'I sleep with one eye open, basically,' she told the New York Daily News. 'I have panic attacks and I wake up in sweats.' Graves no longer works and lives each day crippled by her memories of the attack. 'I don’t know what to do,' she said. 'I’m just seeing my doctor and hoping for the best.'
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Well, I did not intend to misrepresent your comment. Your comments dealt with something lacking in the woman’s life - a husband in bed with her. Now it is a gun.
I understand your point about the “destruction of the family” as a contributing cause to increase in rapes...but you focused on the victim, not the predator.
That was my only point.
Most have doorman and concierge. multiples of those depending on the number of units. My building had 2 doormen and 2 or 3 concierge type people between 7am and 10pm or so.
It shouldn’t be controversial to discuss the whereabouts of the father/husband when the mom is raped alongside her sleeping daughter. I submitted this as a question of defense.
To your point, I agree there are many legitimate reasons why daddy might not be home — it shouldn’t be necessary to avoid crime.
Thank you for your thoughtful comments.
I’d like to see states rethink the death penalty for some of these crimes. I think hanging would have a stronger effect and post it on YouTube.
Blind him. That’ll cure his raping days.
I’m not so certain. At least here in Chicago, it’s very difficult to report a crime.
True story: 2012 - There was a break in at an occupied apartment, tenant not home at the time. The tenant was told that they couldn’t give a report unless the landlord was there as the tenant didn’t own the building. A day later the landlord goes to the police station and is told that he cannot fill out a report of the crime at the station and must go back to the scene of the crime and wait for a squad. Squad is called and didn’t show up for 2 hours. Landlord went home. No crime reported. Maybe NY is less corrupt than Chicago.
Dittos, Girlene.
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