NYU student Amelia Lewis shared a video of a man randomly attacking her on the streets of New York, and it went viral:
Because of the national attention, the NYPD amazingly found the suspect and arrested him.
"Rizzo" has 16 prior arrests and a history of attacking women. He just got out of jail in September after a 2-year sentence.
More from ABC 7:
Suspect James Rizzo, 45, was released from state prison in September after serving two years on a conviction for persistent sexual abuse.
Rizzo has 16 prior arrests, including one in December 2023 for forcible touching when police said he groped a 33-year-old woman in Greenwich Village and asked, "Oh you want more?"
Police say he is a level 2 sex offender for the 2023 forcible touching arrest.
He was also charged with attempted murder in 1997 for beating and stabbing a man in Brooklyn when he was 17 years old.
Why is a man like this continually released back into society?
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