The hulking brute who savagely struck a 60-year-old disabled woman with a belt and cane over 50 times in a Manhattan subway station was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison.
Judge Julieta Lozano also ordered 43-year-old Bronx resident Norton Blake to stay away from the victim for eight years over the Sept. 1, 2023 caught-on-camera attack.
Prosecutors said Blake brutally assaulted Laurell Reynolds, punching and hitting her dozens of times on her head, stomach, leg, arms, back and hands with his belt and cane at West 116 Street and Lenox Avenue in Harlem.
“All over her body as she was crying out in substantial pain,” said Assistant District Attorney Nicole Borczyk during the sentencing.
Reynolds spent two weeks in the hospital and was then treated at a nursing facility. An MTA worker caught the beating on video.
Borczyk said that Blake, who attended court in a wheelchair, exhibited “genuine remorse” for what he did, and that he is not a predicate felon.
In turn, Blake’s defense attorney said he “admitted he went too far” and claimed that his client “did not recognize that this individual was a female.”
After his arrest, Blake claimed that he was trying to help Reynolds up the stairs at the subway station when she “fell down the stairs.”
He also alleged that Reynolds threw bags down the stairs at him, chucked a can of soup and took his cane, using it to try to hit him.
Blake has a record of 9 prior arrests.
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