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In this image taken from security camera video and released by the New York
City Police Department, the face of a mugger who struck a 101-year-old woman
in the head with his fist before stealing her purse Friday, March 9, 2007m
in New York, is shown. The victim, Rose Morat, suffered a broken cheekbone
in the attack that netted the suspect $33.00. The same assailant is believed
to have assaulted an 85 year old woman at another address a half-hour later.
(AP Photo/NYPD)
http://news.yahoo.com/photo/070310/480/nyr10403101730;_ylt=Av.b3mYr80wLG.aT9cTAOshH2ocA

Attack on NYC woman, 101, caught on tape

NEW YORK - For a moment, the man in the grainy video looks like a good
Samaritan holding the door open for an elderly neighbor. Then he turns and
delivers three sharp punches to the 101-year-old woman's head.

"The next thing I knew, I had a big bang on the side of my face," said Rose
Morat, who suffered a fractured cheekbone and lost her purse and $33 to the
mugger.

The attack was captured by a surveillance camera in the lobby of her Queens
apartment building last Sunday.

"I'm quite sure that if it had happened when I was younger, I would have
been after him," she said. "I'm a very strong woman. I've been that way my
whole life."

Police said the same man is believed to have later attacked a second elderly
woman in the neighborhood. Investigators were searching for a suspect
Saturday.

Morat said she was headed to church when she met the man in her lobby. He
offered to help her make her way out, but she declined.

"I know how to handle myself," she said.

As Morat maneuvered her walker through the building's small vestibule, the
man slowly put his bicycle against the wall, turned, and attacked her, the
security video showed.

Her hat flew off, but she remained on her feet as the man removed her bag
and felt her coat pockets.

Then, before making his escape, he punched her in the head again and shoved
her to the ground.

Morat spent three days in the hospital.

The 85-year-old woman believed to be the mugger's second victim, Solange
Elizee, told police she was punched and pushed to the floor outside her
apartment door by a man who had initially offered to help her get home.

"I like to help old people," he said before turning violent, according to
Elizee.

The man took her purse and got away with $32, police said.

"God saved my life," she said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070310/ap_on_re_us/elderly_robbed_2

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On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 23:18:59 GMT, "Pope About Town"
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