Detectives are investigating the rape of a 22-year-old female employee inside an eighth-floor law office Tuesday afternoon in Center City, police said.
“He’s a violent sexual predator,” Capt. James Kearney, commanding officer of the Special Victims Unit,On Tuesday just before 2:15 p.m., an unidentified man entered an office building on the 200 block of North 13th Street and then entered the unlocked eighth-floor office and confronted the woman, who was alone at the time, Kearney said.
The man became “frustrated and angry” and began to beat and choke the woman, then raped her, Kearney said. On surveillance video after the attack, the man can be seen heading south on 13th to Spring Street, then there is a gap of 20 minutes before the man reappears on video around 12th and Spring Streets, and he is last seen heading north from there, Kearney said.
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