Sweet FIT student who was fatally drugged, raped, moved to NYC alone to pursue fashion dreams

She was on her own in the concrete jungle.Fashion Institute of Technology student Annabel Richter bravely moved thousands of miles away from home to chase her dreams alone in Gotham, a shattered family friend told The Post, but her courageous solo journey was cut short by a twisted predator who allegedly drugged her and then raped her while she was dying from a fentanyl overdose.Prosecutors say Moises Freire, 19, drugged Richter, 21, and her roommate inside their Chelsea dorm in March.

Both unconscious women were eventually rushed to the hospital but only the roommate survived.“She struck me as very sweet and kind,” Christina Perez, a longtime friend of Richter’s grandmother, told The Post Friday.“She was very bright.”Perez said Richter’s entire family was living in Sao Paulo, Brazil, except her grandmother, who lives in Washington state, when she went to college.“She wanted to go to New York,” Perez said.

“The idea worried me a bit because she didn’t have anyone there — her family was still in Brazil.”The grandmother, Virginia “Gini” Richter, is in shambles and “suffering a great deal” since the horrific death.She said the rest of Richter’s family came to the states for her memorial service in Portland, Ore.“I can only imagine what it’s like for her parents.

It’s a terrible situation.Very, very sad,” Perez said.

Richter’s mother Flavia Rocha, a Brazilian poet and journalist, shared a tear-jerking tribute to her daughter on Instagram a few days after she died.“It is with great sorrow that we announce the passing of our daughter Annabel, so dearly loved by all of us.Her light remains alive in our hearts.

Forever,” she wrote.Rocha also shared a poem Richter wrote when she was 10 years old titled “What is Red?” She shared an angelic photo of her daughter in a light pink top.“Bel and I would often discuss how women who suffered violence would rarely have a voice.I hope that Annabel’s story brings awareness, a...