Rapist gets 50 years in street attack

A BROOKLYN judge sentenced a registered sex offender to 50 years to life for the vicious knifepoint rape of a woman as she walked home from a Bushwick subway station.

Michael Mann, who was convicted last month of predatory sexual assault and other charges for the August 2016 attack on the 27-year-old, refused to come out of the holding cell at Brooklyn Supreme Court Thursday to hear Justice Dena Douglas slap him with the heavy sentence for “reprehensible” actions that “stole” the victim’s self-respect.

The woman, who moved to California, was not in court for the sentencing, but wrote a victim-impact statement prosecutor Lauren Silver read on her behalf.

In the harrowing letter, the woman recalled how she had to relive the terrifying assault — which was captured on surveillance video — during the 54-year-old Mann’s trial earlier this year.

“I saw myself walking before he grabbed me and it was like the person I was before — (but) the happy, caring, excited, motivated person I was left me and floated away the moment he wrapped his arm around my neck,” she wrote.

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