Chaos erupts during arraignment for creep accused of raping 12-year-old girl in NYC stairwell
Chaos erupted in a Big Apple courtroom Saturday night as the family of the 12-year-old girl allegedly raped in the stairwell of a Brooklyn housing-project building came to blows with the twisted homeless creep accused of carrying out the horrific attack.Eric McMichael, 27, was arraigned in Brooklyn Criminal Court and hit with a slew of new charges for viciously attacking the young girl and threatening to shoot her if she didn’t follow him into the Williamsburg stairwell Thursday night, prosecutors revealed.But during the brute’s court hearing, many of the victim’s loved ones who packed the courtroom shouted and cursed at the suspect and judge before being escorted out.“Another outburst and everyone is leaving,” Judge Orville Reynolds warned the enraged crowd.Prosecutors said the alleged predator, who was out on parole for a 2013 robbery conviction, grabbed the preteen in the lobby of her Cooper Houses building on Morgan Avenue near Jackson Street Thursday night, growling “I need you to come with me, or I’ll shoot you.”McMichael – who was previously nabbed for a violent 2019 Staten Island rape – dragged the young girl into a stairwell and shoved her to the ground before committing the heinous sexual assault, prosecutors said.“An eyewitness encountered them and saw the defendant with no pants on, and the complainant, who made an outcry for help,” Brooklyn Assistant District Attorney Jordan Rossman said during the arraignment.“The defendant fled.The eyewitness brought the complainant upstairs to her family’s apartment where her mother was, and the mother saw the child bleeding from her legs.”Rossman said the distraught mother called the police and took her daughter to the hospital in stable condition.McMichael was arrested Friday afternoon after his parole officer identified him in surveillance footage captured at a nearby laundromat.Prosecutors said the violent suspect allegedly admitted to being in the lobby of the building following hi...