Woman who was raped and left for dead in Horicon 20 years ago speaks - Glens Falls Post-Star
Anna knew she was in trouble when the car skidded to a stop in front of her on a remote stretch of River Road in Horicon that summer afternoon 20 years ago. The man who jumped out of the car kidnapped her and forced her to endure hours of repeated sexual assaults, followed by efforts to strangle her. But her 12-year-old brain made a decision as the vicious assault went on, that she was not going to let the stranger who grabbed her off a rural road end her life in a wooded dumping ground in Hague. Her efforts to fight him off, and details that Anna (not her real name) remembered about her attacker and his car, including five characters from his license plate, led to the arrest three days later of former Hague resident Patrick H. May. The attack — in August 1995 — shocked a region where stranger abductions are virtually unheard of. In the past 20 years, the girl brutally assaulted that day has grown into a remarkable woman who is now prosecuting the Patrick Mays of the world. She graduated from college, completed law school and got her law license, then worked in a Midwestern state as a prosecutor for several years before returning to New York to work as an assistant district attorney in an upstate county. Anna spoke on condition her name not be used, not because she is ashamed of what happened to her, but because she worries about the impact a public unveiling could have on her prosecutorial career and life. Source: poststar.com
