A crazed New Yorker has been sentenced to 12 years in prison after pushing a woman over the side of a subway train.
Anthonia Egegbara, 32, pushed Lenny Javier into the path of a northbound 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, which required surgery, as well as bleeding and bruising to his face.
Egegbara had been held without bail at Rikers Island after her arrest and faced up to 25 years in prison on an attempted murder charge.
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 assaulting Jasmine Robles, leaving her with a broken nose, a missing tooth and PTSD.
Anthonia Egegbara, seen here in court 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, as well as bleeding and bruising to his face.
Speaking to DailyMail.com on Thursday after the sentencing, Robles said she did not think it was enough.
She said: “I think it’s 12 years for someone with heinous assaults, attempted murder charges. Someone like that should be jailed for life.”
“How can you trust that this person is free and out in the world hurting innocent people and causing casualties in every district?”
Robles added that she is still working on being able to take the subway every day and not panic because of her PTSD.
Robles previously said she could only remember feeling the impact on her face as she blacked out for a few seconds when she was attacked.
Upon recovering, Egegbara ‘jumped’ on her and hit her while 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 walked free with just a pat on the wrist, Robles contacted the district attorney’s office warning he would do it again.
In an impact statement Javier read out in court, he described the incident as “like a scene from a horror movie.”
“It was always the same route and the same schedule, but as I thought about my day everything changed dramatically,” he said.
‘I found myself in the middle of a nightmare. It was like a scene from a horror movie I had seen before. My life was shattered.
‘The nightmare has remained and persisted since that day, fear crawled into my life like an insect.’
Jasmine Robles, seen here, told the outlet she could only remember feeling “the impact” on her face as she blacked out for a few seconds.
Robles was left with a broken nose, a missing tooth and post-traumatic stress disorder following Egegbara’s attack.
Javier described the “physical and emotional pain” as having a lasting impact on his life and appearance.
She said she can still see the marks left by Egegbara when she looks in the mirror.
Javier also continues to struggle with trauma and lives with anxiety.
He added: “It’s taken me a while to get over all these changes, I still have a long way to go, but knowing that you’ll be locked away in a place where you can’t hurt anyone else helps bring about some resolve.
Addressing the court on Thursday, Egegbara said: “I sincerely apologize for my actions.”
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said Egegbara “will serve a significant state prison sentence for brutally shoving a woman, who was on her morning commute, onto a train as it entered the station.”
Robles, pictured here, said he had warned officials about Egegbara and that he would strike again.
Surveillance video shows the moment Egegbara pushed Javier onto a train at the Times Square subway station.
Addressing the court on Thursday, Egegbara said he “sincerely apologized” for his actions.
“The assault left the victim stiff and in pain from the injuries to this day. I hope the resolution of this case can offer the victim a sense of justice.”
Just days after the 2021 incident, Javier’s father Vidal spoke out, saying the images of his daughter being pushed left him feeling “helpless” and “angry.”
He told Telemundo at the time: ‘It’s something that, in a certain way, I perhaps didn’t know how to express because one feels that one’s hands are tied.
‘She says she thinks she will never get on a train again because she thinks everyone next to her will hurt her.
“I think it will be very difficult to return even if he is still alive, but in his case he would have to go to therapy or undergo therapy. It will be a system in which trust is restored.”
Javier has since filed a lawsuit accusing both the city and state of failing to act “negligently” to prevent the incident.
The lawsuit, which is currently in federal court in Manhattan, argues that the incident would not have happened if authorities had installed security barriers.
