Mattress ‘assault’

The owner of a Connecticut furniture shop convinced a woman to go into the basement to “test” a mattress — and then sexually assaulted her there, police said.

Hennawi Salem, owner of Salem Furniture in Bridgeport, was busted Tuesday for allegedly “luring a female customer” to his business and asking her to “lay down” to try out the merchandise, Bridgeport police said.

Salem told her the mattress was free before sexually assaulting her, police said. He was taken into custody at his business on a warrant for fourth-degree sexual assault.

The allegedly lecherous owner had been previously arrested in September on charges of third-degree sexual assault, second-degree unlawful restraint and risk of injury to a child after three females made “similar accusations,” police said.