UPPER DARBY, PA. —
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A lady was raped by a stranger on a commuter prepare in suburban Philadelphia within the presence of different riders who a police official stated “ought to have completed one thing.”
Superintendent Timothy Bernhardt of the Higher Darby Police Division stated officers have been referred to as to the 69th Road terminal round 10 p.m. Wednesday after the assault on the westbound prepare on the Market-Frankford Line.
An worker of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority who was within the neighborhood because the prepare went previous referred to as police to report that “one thing wasn’t proper” with a girl aboard the prepare, Bernhardt stated.
SEPTA police ready on the subsequent cease discovered the lady and arrested a person. The lady was taken to a hospital.
Bernhardt referred to as the sufferer an “unbelievably sturdy lady” who supplied police with quite a lot of info. She didn’t know her attacker, he stated.
“She’s on the mend,” Bernhardt stated. “Hopefully she’s going to get by means of this.”
The complete episode was captured on surveillance video that confirmed different folks on the prepare on the time, Bernhardt stated.
“There was lots of people, for my part, that ought to have intervened; any person ought to have completed one thing,” Bernhardt stated. “It speaks to the place we’re in society; I imply, who would permit one thing like that to happen? So it is troubling.”
Fiston Ngoy, 35, has been charged with rape, aggravated indecent assault and associated counts, in keeping with Delaware County court docket data. Bernhardt stated he’s identified to each SEPTA and Higher Darby police.
Courtroom paperwork do not checklist a protection lawyer, and a listed quantity for him could not be discovered Saturday.
SEPTA issued an announcement calling it a “horrendous felony act” and urging anybody witnessing such a factor to report it to authorities.
“There have been different folks on the prepare who witnessed this horrific act, and it might have been stopped sooner if a rider referred to as 911,” the authority stated.
