Esther (80) assaulted by underage boy in cemetery: “I felt deeply ashamed, I felt dirty”

In Ostend, an 80-year-old woman was violently assaulted in the middle of the street by a teenager. The case provoked a strong emotion in Belgium. The shock is immense in Belgium.

Esther went shopping this Friday afternoon when she was violently assaulted by a young man: "He pushed me, I fell to the ground and when I tried to get up, he caught me by the hair and hit his head against the sidewalk. I lost consciousness for a while," she confided to HLN. "When I regained my mind, my heart was beating up. My pants and panties were down to the ankles and the boy was on me. A couple of cyclists went there, the 60th. The boy the…

80-year-old Esther Masschaele experienced the fright of her life on Friday afternoon. An underage boy hit her hard at the cemetery in Ostend, causing her to fall to the ground. The woman became unconscious and when she came to, she had her pants and underwear around her ankles. "When a couple of cyclists rode past, the boy fled," says the woman, still shocked. The perpetrator has since been arrested.