New York Daily News

Mom rages as 2 busted in son’s ‘Housewife’ slay

- Nancy Dillon With Edgar Sandoval and Larry McShane

A COLUMBIA University student claims she was sexually assaulted twice inside her Manhattan dorm room as apathetic officials failed to protect her or locate the attacker.

The attacks, a rape and then a sexual assault followed by torture, occurred 10 weeks apart during the student’s freshman year at the Ivy League school, according to a Manhattan Federal Court lawsuit filed Tuesday.

The 20-year-old victim, who still attends Columbia, blasted the university’s response to her Oct. 5, 2015, rape and subsequent Dec. 14, 2015, sexual assault as woefully inadequate.

“It’s generous to call it an investigat­ion,” the accuser told the Daily News on Tuesday. “They interviewe­d me once and they didn’t do anything else.

“There were multiple people on my floor who fit the (attacker’s) descriptio­n,” she told The News. “Columbia didn’t interview any of them.”

A source indicated the attacker was likely the same man in both cases based on a physical descriptio­n provided by the accuser. Police confirmed she reported the attacks to the Manhattan special victims division this past January — more than a year later. She says she waited because of her general opposition to incarcerat­ion.

The attacker, according to the lawsuit, later used a public bulletin board in the dorm to taunt the accuser, one referring to the first attack and another invoking the second — where the woman was violated with a hairbrush and a pair of scissors.

“I missed multiple classes after having panic attacks,” Amelia Roskin-Frazee said of the months following the attacks. “You have nightmares.”

The News generally doesn’t identify victims of sexual assault, but the creative writing major gave the newspaper permission to use her name.

Roskin-Frazee alleged that Columbia also failed to fix a lock on the door to her campus residence until September 2016 — nine months after the second attack.

Columbia, without directly addressing the specifics of the student’s case, said her allegation­s were taken seriously.

“The university does not comment on pending litigation, nor do we publicly discuss the details of specific complaints of genderbase­d misconduct because of our legal and ethical commitment to protecting the privacy of all students,” read a Columbia statement. “None of this diminishes the deep concern we feel about any allegation of assault on our campuses.”

The first attack occurred several weeks after the start of RoskinFraz­ee’s freshman year in a room that lacked the key card locks used in other dorms. The doors to the suite with her room “remained unlocked at all times,” she charged in the lawsuit.

Roskin-Frazee was sleeping facedown in her room when she awoke on Oct. 5, 2015, to find the rapist already on top of her, with her pants yanked down to her ankles and her face pushed into a pillow, the lawsuit charged.

“Plaintiff was in so much pain that she passed out,” the lawsuit charged.

The woman says she sought help from administra­tors, starting with an Oct. 13 call to Columbia’s sexual violence response hotline. But her requests, including one to change dorms, fell on deaf ears, she said.

Just over two months later, an assailant was lying in wait and forced his way inside the room when Roskin-Frazee opened her dorm room door on Dec. 14, 2015, the lawsuit charged.

The man tied the woman’s hands to a chair, stuffed her shorts into her mouth and began shoving foreign objects inside the victim, the lawsuit charged.

He also “cut her thighs with the razor blade,” according to court papers. THE MOTHER of a murdered New Jersey man raged at his accused killers Tuesday, saying, “Let them be burned alive, so they can feel the pain that we feel.”

Michele Ryerson let loose during the video arraignmen­ts in Paterson of suspects Clarence Williams, 26, and Gerry Thomas, 28.

Her son Aaron Anderson and his pal Antonio Vega were shot in a 2015 Audi belonging to “The Real Housewives of New Jersey” cast member Kim DePaola. The killers then torched the car and fled.

Ryerson howled at both defendants, even as Thomas tried to duck from the camera during his appearance.

“Too bad!” she shouted. When Williams appeared, Ryerson cranked up her volume. “Scum!” she shouted. “You’re scum! I hope you hear me! Pain!”

Ryerson believes Anderson, 27, and Vega, 25, were targeted for a robbery while driving through crime-ridden Paterson.

DePaola thinks there’s more to the story. “I’m relieved there are some arrests, but they’re saying this was a robbery, and I don’t believe it,” she told the Daily News.

The suspects were accused of two counts of felony murder, aggravated arson and weapons charges.

DePaola said Anderson was a friend who drove her son, Chris Camiscioli, to the airport Thursday night.

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