What there is to know
- A New York man has been sentenced to decades in prison for repeatedly assaulting a woman in 2021 on a northbound A train, according to the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office.
- Dashwan Lewis, 32, of the Bronx, was sentenced earlier this week to 25 years in prison and 20 years of post-release supervision after being convicted in March of first-degree rape, three counts of felony sex, first degree theft, third degree robbery, forced touching and theft of services. Upon his eventual release, Lewis will also have to register as a sex offender.
- When the woman got off the train at the next stop, she was met by her friend and the police, as her friend had called 911 when the call hung up. She was taken to hospital, where a sexual assault kit was prepared; the results matched Lewis DNA.
NEW YORK — A New York man has been sentenced to decades in prison for repeatedly assaulting a woman in 2021 on a northbound A train, according to the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office.
Dashwan Lewis, 32, of the Bronx, was sentenced earlier this week to 25 years in prison and 20 years of post-release supervision after being convicted in March of first-degree rape, three counts of felony sex, first degree theft, third degree robbery, forced touching and theft of services. Upon his eventual release, Lewis will also have to register as a sex offender.
Lewis’s conviction and sentence stem from events that occurred in the early morning hours of August 11, 2021. It was that day, around 3:20 a.m., when a 24-year-old woman was waiting for the subway at the Liberty Avenue station. in East New York, when Lewis started talking to her and she ignored him.
However, according to the evidence, the woman got up to board the train and Lewis touched her buttocks, got on the train and started yelling at her in front of two other passengers before moving on to another coach. Metro.
The woman, who was crying, called her friend on Facetime, but the call was cut off, according to evidence presented by the prosecution. However, when the other two passengers got off the train at the next stop, Lewis got back in the car, told her “don’t make me ruin your pretty face” and forced her to perform a sex act while filming. Prosecutors said the woman was raped and then forced to perform another sex act, took her ID and left the train.
When the woman got off the train at the next stop, she was met by her friend and the police, as her friend had called 911 when the call hung up. They took her to the hospital, where they prepared a sexual assault kit for her.
Lewis was later arrested around 5:45 a.m. at a nearby train station by New York police officers who recognized him as fitting the description of the sexual assault suspect, and was later charged.
The defendant’s DNA matched the sexual assault kit and other evidence of the attack was found on his phone.
“This defendant violently and brutally attacked an innocent woman on the subway and, thanks to the courageous testimony of the victim, he will be held accountable,” Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said.