A fellow prisoner hurled boiling water on the face of a career criminal who was suspected of putting his faeces on the face of a subway passenger, potentially severely disfiguring him.
After being doused with boiling water by a fellow Rikers Island inmate last week at the infamous Rikers Island’s Anna M. Kross Correctional Facility, where Frank Abrokwa, 37, is being held on bail, it is anticipated that he would “had scars for the rest of his life.”
According to sources who spoke to The New York Post, his assailant in the jail ironically went by the moniker of “Burns.”
You can cleanse the filth from your face but keep the mental scars. You will be physically and mentally scarred by hot water for the rest of your life, the source claimed.
On February 21, he was apparently seen on camera smearing his own waste on a woman after urinating into a bag at the East 241st Street stop in The Bronx.
Following the repulsive deed, Abrokwa was detained, but as his misdemeanours were not technically violent, the judge was unable to set bail, therefore the man was let go back onto the streets.
Abrokwa was let go after a second alleged violent assault before being taken into custody.
He is alleged to have threatened a worker at a storage facility in Harlem before throwing a dumbbell through a glass pane and shattering it.
As he was being escorted into Manhattan Criminal Court to be charged with criminal mischief and harassment, he was seen making a crude gesture with his hand.
Regarding the faeces attack, Abrokwa was charged with breaking the terms of his supervised release.
Just three days after New York City Mayor Eric Adams presented the Subway Safety Plan to deploy 1,000 cops to secure the metro system’s high-crime areas, the heinous, seemingly unprovoked attack occurred.
Abrokwa produced a disturbance in court during his arraignment by shouting at the top of his lungs, throwing expletives, and daring the judge to grant him bail. The judge set his bond at $15,000 and mandated that he undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
Abrokwa is currently facing charges stemming from an altercation that happened at the Treasure Island Storage Facility on West 145th Street, where the suspect entered around 6.30 p.m., according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.
The general manager of the company was helping another customer when Abrokwa, who was characterised as “upset,” started shouting at him.
Later, when Abrokwa walked away, the manager noticed him toting a dumbbell.
According to a complaint, “[The manager] then went to find the defendant to assist him and as he was coming towards the defendant he spotted a window that had been damaged.”
The manager claimed that Abrokwa approached him and stated, “I want my refund,” as he was clearing up the broken glass. Because I’m leaving on Monday, I smashed the glass.
Abrokwa eventually departed, but when he went back the next day, he was overheard saying to a worker, “If I don’t get my refund by Monday, I’m going to come back here and get a felony.”
Abrokwa was previously charged with forceful touching, threats, disorderly conduct, and harassment in connection with the faeces attack on March 1.
Things do happen. ‘Haha,’ Abrokwa reportedly said following his detention in connection with the feces-smearing case. It’s a bad scenario, I tell you. Haha.’
Abrokwa was arrested right away for reportedly threatening to kill a Jewish man in Brooklyn last September after being released on bail.
Menachem Minkowitz, 46, told the New York Daily News that while he was minding his own thing as he left a deli in Crown Heights, Abrokwa suddenly materialised and singled him out for attack due to his Jewish garb.
He remarked, “Everything occurred so quickly.” “Someone approaches and spits on me.” What the f**k is wrong with you, I yelled? He added, “F**king Jew.”
Before striking the man, Abrokwa allegedly exclaimed, “I’m going to kill you!” according to the police.
Minkowitz said, “I saw the hatred in his eyes.” “I love people, yet I could not miss the evil in their eyes.” It was awful.
Abrokwa was charged with aggravated harassment, third-degree menacing as a hate crime, third-degree menacing and disorderly conduct in that case on March 2. She was then released on supervision following her arraignment.
A January 7 arrest for allegedly punching a 30-year-old guy on a subway platform at 125th Street and Lenox Avenue, as well as an arrest on February 5 for allegedly beating a 53-year-old man at the Port Authority Bus Terminal, are also included in the 37-year-extensive old’s criminal history.
But each time, the career criminal was released without having to pay bail because to New York’s weak new bail reform legislation, allowing him to continue prowling the streets.
Abrokwa was detained in mid-February on suspicion of brandishing a screwdriver at a hardware shop employee during a heist, but like his prior run-ins with the cops, the suspect was eventually let go.
A week later, on February 21, Abrokwa was captured on security footage strolling along the platform at the East 241st Street when, after failing to engage her in conversation, he lunged at a woman seated on a bench and splattered her with his own faeces.
He approaches from behind the woman and, as she bends forward, places a plastic bag containing his excrement on her head and back.
A severe crime wave has been sweeping through New York City, with shootings, robberies, rapes, and assaults all experiencing sharp rises in frequency.
According to New York Police Department (NYPD) figures, 504 subway crimes have been registered this year as of March 20 compared to 288 during the same period in 2021, signifying a 75% increase.