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Police have arrested a brute accused of raping a 49-year-old woman during a horrifying armed robbery in Brooklyn over the weekend — but the man insisted he had just been visiting a “prostitution spot.”

Mohammed Izzeddin, 22, of Bay Ridge, was taken into custody on Thursday and charged with rape, robbery, assault and several other charges, according to police.

“I didn’t rape her!” Izzeddin yelled out as police escorted him out of the NYPD’s 66th Precinct stationhouse, the New York Daily News reported. “It’s a prostitution spot!”

The suspect was awaiting arraignment at Brooklyn Criminal Court on Thursday.

His traumatized victim said she hasn’t been able to sleep since Saturday’s vicious attack.


  Mohammed Izzeddin, 22, of Bay Ridge, was taken into custody on Thursday. Gregory P. Mango Mohammed Izzeddin, 22, of Bay Ridge, was taken into custody on Thursday. Gregory P. Mango

“I had not rested for 24 hours — not at all, on any day since because I could not calm down, and now I am slowly adjusting. I think I may see a psychiatrist next,” the woman told PIX 11.

She and two female co-workers were at an unnamed business near 9th Avenue and 59th Street around 6 p.m. Saturday, when a pair of robbers allegedly forced their way through the door.

“When I opened the door, the bad guy hit me in the face very hard,” said the victim, who does not speak English.


  The victim said she and two female co-workers were at an unnamed business Saturday when a pair of robbers forced their way through the door. DCPI The victim said she and two female co-workers were at an unnamed business Saturday when a pair of robbers forced their way through the door. DCPI

  Izzeddin is charged with rape, assault, sex abuse, unlawful imprisonment, forcible touching, menacing and harassment while his accomplice remains at large. DCPI Izzeddin is charged with rape, assault, sex abuse, unlawful imprisonment, forcible touching, menacing and harassment while his accomplice remains at large. DCPI

“I was afraid of hurting the other two girls, so I opened the door for him,” the woman said.

Izzeddin also choked her before he and his accomplice swiped $300 in cash from the business, she said.

She had a reddish mark on her cheek where she said the man had hit her, according to PIX 11.

She then said she was raped by Izzeddin while the accomplice held the two other workers at knifepoint and ordered them to be quiet.

The pair ran off with the money and the woman was taken to a local hospital.

Izzeddin is charged with rape, assault, sex abuse, unlawful imprisonment, forcible touching, menacing and harassment.

The accomplice remains at large.

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