Passers-by ignore rape victim's cries for help
A surveillance camera captures the suspect walking away from the scene with a pipe in his right hand
A 23-year-old woman is on life-support after she was attacked and raped by a pipe-wielding rapist in New York.
A surveillance camera has captured several people walked pass but no one helped to stop the man while another camera caught the suspect walking away from the scene with a pipe in his hand.
The weapon was later thrown into some bushes.
Yao Yu, from China, has been warded at the Intensive Care Unit of New York Hospital Queens for a fractured skull, bleeding on the brain and trauma to her vaginal area.
Officials are making arrangement for her mother to go to the United States to decide on the daughter's fate.
Yao, who dreamed of becoming a lawyer, arrived in New York two months ago, using money that her parents borrowed.
"She was working in a nail salon to save up money for her studies," assemblywoman Grace Meng (D-Flushing) told the local newspaper.
"She had good grades in China. That's why her parents wanted her to come and expand her horizons."
Last Saturday, Yao was walking home from grocery shopping at 9.30pm when a Mexican man smashed her in the head with a pipe and dragged her into an alley.
Once inside, Carlos Salazar Cruz, 28, removed Yao's clothing and raped her.
Police arrested Cruz, who worked at a Manhattan fish market, a few blocks from the crime scene after a witness called 911.
He was charged on Tuesday.
Published May 21 2010
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