A Brooklyn dad rushed to the rescue of his 9-year-old daughter when a careâĻer criminal tried to rape her outside her hoęĶ°me, police sources said.
Robert Draâch alâlegedly grabbed the girl by her head and arms in the vicinity of Ford Street and Avenue V in Sheepshead Bay Thursday just after 7 a.m., sources said.
The terð§ļrified child screamed foâr her father when Drach, 38, exposed himself, snarled âCome with me,â and tried to drag her away, sources said.
The girlâs dad came charging out of the house, subdued the fiend ā―§and held him until cops arrivðąed.
Auð thorities are withholding the familyâs name due to the nature of the crime and the girlâs age.
ę§Drach was taken to the 61st Precinct station house, where he yanked a lighter out of his rear end and set fire to a chair, sending officers scrambling to extinguð§ish the flames in his holding cell, sources said.
Before cops could find it, Drach shoved áĢthe lighter back inside himself, sources said.
Drach was rushed ðĪŠto a nearby hospital for X-rays while cops waited for a warrant to conduct a body search.
When the warrant arrived, Drach forcedð š out the lighter and attempted to swallow it, but cops grabbed it, sources said.
Drach, who cops said had amassed 69 prior arrests, was charged with attempted unęĶŽlawful imprisonment and arson.
âThatââs not Robbie,â said a woman who identified herself as Drachâs grandmother. âHe would never do ęĶanything like that.â