An aspiring Thai model was viciously beaten and robbed at a Brooklyn subway station by an ex-con out on bail, according to prosecutors — as video shows her pleading with him to stop,
Zine Raksasutee, 26, was on the stairs at the Chauncey Street station in Bushwick June 22 when Lewis Doctor, 54, allegedly grabbed her by the throat and shoved her against a wall — then unloaded a flurry of punches, according to a criminal complaint obtained by The Post.
Doctor then knocked the victim to the ground and kept beating her while wearing a ring on one of his fingers, leaving her with a split lip and cuts to her face, the complaint alleges.
He allegedly ran off with Raksasutee’s iPhone, AirPods, handbag, debit card, hard drive and other items all valued at about $1,400, according to the complaint.
The suspect was arrested three days later, but Raksasutee was left traumatized by the attack, the victim said.
“I am grateful to be alive and to be surrounded by people who are helping me heal. I hope speaking out will help keep others safe,” she said in a statement through her attorney.
“This can happen to anyone if nothing is done.”
Raksasutee can be heard pleading with attacker as she struggled on the ground in a video she captured on her phone and that was obtained by The Post.
“Please, please,” she begged the suspect.
Photos obtained by The Post show Raksasutee with a cut on her chin and blood streaming down her part of her neck and chest.
The attack is disturbingly similar to an attack of another aspiring Thai model who was brutalized and robbed on a Manhattan subway platform in 2021.
The 23-year-old victim back then was punched in the face and placed in a headlock before her purse was ripped away from her at the Herald Square station almost four years ago.
“How many times must people be forced to relive the same nightmare before decisive action replaces empty words? How many more statements like this must be issued and when will we stop making excuses for the perpetrators?” the victim’s lawyer, Eric Parnes, said in a statement.
“Our client suffered this cowardly, unprovoked attack while doing what millions do every day — simply trying to get home.”
Parnes said Raksasutee came to the United States from Thailand a year and a half ago and is currently a student studying English while preparing a modeling portfolio.
Doctor was indicted Monday on first-degree assault, first degree robbery, fourth-degree grand larceny, criminal possession of stolen property and a slew of related charges, according to the complaint.
He faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted of assault in the first degree.
He was previously cut loose on $5,000 bail in January 2024 after he was arrested and charged with robbing a victim with a BB gun, the Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez’s office said.
Prosecutors unsuccessfully requested $50,000 bail in that case, according to the DA’s office.
This time around, the suspect is being held in custody after prosecutors were granted their request of $50,000 bail in the most recent case, according to prosecutors.
Doctor served a state prison sentence between 1998 and 2022 on robbery charges, according to state records.
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