Man Who Groped Woman, Threw Her Into Train Tacks Gets 27 Years

WEST VILLAGE, NY — The man who groped a woman in a West Village subway station and then hurled her onto the tracks after she refused him was sentenced to 27 years in prison, according to prosecutors.

Kimani Stephenson, 25, was convicted in July of first-degree assault and sex abuse for attacking Bonnie Currie, 23, who was on the F line platform at W. 14th Street on April 14, 2017 when Stephenson grabbed her breast and crotch.

When Currie told him to "f--k off," Stephenson flew into a rage and tossed her onto the train tracks — breaking her wrist, injuring her sternum and causing damage to ligaments in her shoulder.

Currie described the harrowing experience in Manhattan supreme court Friday.

“I cannot understand why, after I had rejected this complete stranger’s claim to my body, his next thought … was to throw me on the train tracks and leave me there,” a shaken Currie said, reported the Daily News.

“I thought I was going to die.”

Stephenson was acquitted of an attempted murder charge for the act. Throughout the trail, his lawyer argued that police had arrested the wrong man.

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