When Gloria left her janitorial shift at a Financial District building in the dark early hours of the morning one day last summer, she quickly walked to her car, parked on a nearly empty street.
A man walked up behind her and grabbed her in what she describes as a sexual assault. She yelled, turned to face him, and fought back. She doesn’t recall how long the struggle lasted, but it ended when a coworker pulled the man off.
They called the cops, and the man was arrested, says Gloria, who asked to go by her first name and withhold certain details of the attack to protect her safety. Though physically unscathed, she was psychologically and emotionally shaken…