WEST HAVEN, CT — A Milford Superior Court jury on Wednesday, Oct. 21, convicted a 44-year-old Stamford man on all four charges in a 2024 attack on a legally blind woman at the Main Street building in West Haven where she worked and lived, State's Attorney Margaret E. Kelley of the Ansonia-Milford Judicial District announced.
The 2024 Attack
Prosecutors said the 57-year-old woman ran a business on the first floor of the building and lived upstairs. On Aug. 18, 2024, her doorbell rang several times. When she opened the door a crack, the man forced his way inside, grabbed her neck and demanded money, according to the State's Attorney's office.
He searched the first floor, then went upstairs and took $600, her credit cards, her identification and both of her cellphones. He ordered her to keep quiet when she tried to talk. He bound her with a phone charger cord and held up scissors as a threat, then forced her to undress and sexually assaulted her. She got outside and found her landlord, who called police, Patch reported.