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Woman Drugged, Raped by Man in Brooklyn Home Invasion: Police

A man drugged and raped a young woman after sneaking into her Brooklyn home this week, police said.

The man, who was wearing a black ski mask and gloves, somehow gained access to the woman’s apartment near Euclid and Ridgewood avenues in Cypress Hills on Monday evening, according to police. 

The man surprised the woman as she left the bathroom, police said.

He grabbed, drugged and raped the 21-year-old woman, police said, with her 9-month-old baby nearby. The baby was not harmed. 

Police believe the suspect put the baby in a bouncer while he raped her.

The man put a cloth soaked with a chemical over the woman’s mouth before the attack, detectives said. The woman said she remembered the man picking her up before she blacked out.

Then she woke up, her hands tied with duct tape wrapped around her hands and ankles, and covering her mouth.

"She wakes up a short time later, tied up with duct tape," Robert Boyce, NYPD Chief of Detectives, said. "No one there, and she's laying on the floor."

Investigators returned to the scene Tuesday night, swarming the yard and trying to access all points of the crime scene.

"They were asking my husband to allow them to pass through, to go through the yard," neighbor Maria Colon said. "Then he told me, he called me at work and told me someone was raped and they attacked her."

In a community where everyone knows their neighbor, nobody is sure of who the attacker could be. 

The NYPD said Brooklyn SVU is investigating.

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