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A Queens man has been busted for the horrifying November attack on an aspiring Thai model on a Herald Square subway platform, police said Saturday.
Kevin Douglas, 40, was charged Thursday with second-degree robbery, third-degree robbery and second-degree assault, according to the NYPD. The address provided by police for Douglas was a Days Inn hotel near JFK International Airport.
But Douglas has been in jail since the Nov. 22 subway attack, locked up for another crime later the same day as the assault, public records show.
The attack happened at 4:30 a.m. as Bew Jirajariyawetch, 23, was on the uptown D platform waiting for a train home to Queens.
Surveillance footage showed a man yanking her back several feet before throwing her to the ground and punching her. While she was down, the mugger allegedly touched her private parts and fled with her purse, police said.
“I’m just glad that I’m still alive,” Jirajariyawetch told The Post after the brutal mugging.
Photos taken after the assault showed the young woman’s face covered in purple bruises with dried blood caked under her nose and near her mouth.