The heartless brute who randomly knocked out an 81-year-old woman on the Upper West Side was out on bail for an earlier crime: exposing himself to a mom and her two kids, Manhattan prosecutors said Friday.
Hansel Esparragoza, 37, had two open cases against him in Staten Island and was out on supervised release when he slugged elderly Geula Freeman at West 66th Street and Amsterdam Avenue in Manhattan on Sept. 13 in a shocking caught-on-video attack, authorities said.
The suspect already had multiple arrest warrants out for him for failing to show up to court in those cases when he decked the old lady, prosecutors said.
He was finally held on $75,000 bail in Manhattan Criminal Court at his arraignment Friday on assault charges for allegedly punching his defenseless victim.
Esparragoza — a Staten Island resident with 21 prior arrests in all — was busted July 27 when he exposed himself to a woman and her two children as he muttered, “Hey Mommy” outside a strip mall on Staten Island, Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Hunter Carrell said at Friday’s hearing.