A deranged New Yorker has been sentenced to 12 years in prison after pushing a woman into the side of a subway train.
Anthonia Egegbara, 32, pushed Lenny Javier in front of a northbound No. 3 train at the Times Square-42nd Street station. Disturbing footage of the incident later emerged.
Javier survived the brutal attack, but suffered a broken arm that required surgery, and suffered bleeding and bruising to his face.
Egegbara was being held without bail at Rikers Island after her arrest and could face up to 25 years in prison for attempted murder.
She had been arrested at least seven times before the attack, including for biting and kicking other women on public transport.
Three months before the attack on Javier, Egegbara was released without bail after attacking Jasmine Robles, leaving her with a broken nose, a missing tooth and PTSD.
Anthonia Egegbara, seen here in court on Thursday, pushed Lenny Javier into the path of a northbound 3 train at the Times Square-42nd Street station
Lenny Javier miraculously survived the brutal attack, but suffered a broken arm, which required surgery, and bleeding and bruising to his face
Robles told DailyMail.com on Thursday after the sentencing that she didn’t think it was enough.
She said: ‘I feel like it’s 12 years for someone with the horrific attacks, the attempted murder charges. Someone like that should be locked up for life.
“How can you trust that this person is walking around free and hurting innocent people and creating victims in every neighborhood?”
Robles added that she still struggles to take the subway every day and not panic because of her PTSD.
Robles previously said she only remembered feeling the impact to her face, as she was unconscious for a few seconds when she was attacked.
When Egegbara regained consciousness, she jumped on her and hit her as Robles screamed for help.
Another passenger came to her aid, pinning Egegbara’s arms behind her back and pushing her to the ground as they waited for police to arrive.
After Egegbara got off with nothing more than a slap on the wrist, Robles contacted the Attorney General’s Office and warned that she would do it again.
In a statement read out in court by Javier, she described the incident as “like a scene from a horror movie.”
“It was always the same route and timing, but when I thought about my day, everything changed drastically,” she said.
‘I was in a part of a nightmare. Like a scene from a horror movie I had seen before. My life was ruined.
‘The nightmare has continued since that day and continues. Fear has crept into my life like an insect.’
Jasmine Robles, seen here, told the newspaper that all she could remember was feeling “the impact” on her face as she fell unconscious for a few seconds
Robles was left with a broken nose, a missing tooth and PTSD from the attack by Egegbara
Javier described the “physical and emotional pain” as something that had a lasting impact on her life and appearance.
She said she can still see the marks Egegbara left when she looks in the mirror.
Javier still struggles with trauma and fears.
She added: ‘It’s taken me a while to process all these changes. I still have a long way to go, but knowing that you’re locked in a place where you can’t hurt anyone else helps you come to a resolution.’
Egegbara said in his speech to the court on Thursday: “I sincerely apologize for my actions.”
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said Egegbara “will serve a significant prison sentence for brutally pushing a woman, who was on her way to work, onto a train pulling into a station.
Robles, seen here, said she had warned authorities about Egegbara and that she would strike again
Surveillance footage shows the moment Egegbara pushed Javier into a train at the Times Square subway station
Egegbara said in a speech in court on Thursday that she “truly apologized” for her actions
“The attack has left the victim with stiffness and pain from her injuries to this day. I hope that the resolution of this case can provide the victim with a sense of justice.”
Just days after the incident in 2021, Javier’s father, Vidal, spoke out, saying the footage of his daughter being pushed left him “helpless” and “angry.”
He told Telemundo at the time: ‘It’s something that maybe I couldn’t put into words very well, because you feel like your hands are tied.
She says she thinks she will never get on a train again because she is convinced that everyone standing next to her will hurt her.
“I think it will be very difficult to come back, even if life goes on, but for her, she should go to therapy or follow therapy. It will be a system where you get confidence back.”
Javier has since filed a lawsuit accusing both the city and the state of “negligence” in preventing the incident.
The lawsuit, currently pending in federal court in Manhattan, argues that the incident would not have occurred if authorities had put up security barriers.