Marjorie Perkins, 87, was attacked in her Maine home by a young male intruder. After she fought him off, he said he was hungry, so she gave him peanut butter and crackers.
in a separate interview. So she grabbed a nearby chair, she said, “and I kept hitting him.”
“I was hollering for help out the window,” she told the Times Record, adding that no one heard her. “He kept punching me and pushing me,” she said, adding that the intruder punched her in the forehead and bruised it.Then, he seemingly tired and made for the kitchen, where she offered him a snack. “I kept saying, ‘You need to get out. You need help,’” she told the Times Record. “He said he was awfully hungry and hadn’t had anything to eat for quite a while.
While he was eating, she dialed 911 on her rotary phone, she said. The intruder left her home before authorities arrived, but a police dog tracked him down shortly after and took him into custody, she said. Perkins told the Times Record she recognized the intruder when he mowed her lawn as a young kid 10 years ago, and estimated him to be 17 years old.Brunswick police have not released the attacker’s identity or age. But in an email Wednesday, Brunswick Police Chief Scott Stewart confirmed media reports of the attack, as well as reports that the intruder faces charges for burglary, criminal threatening, assault and consuming liquor as a minor.
Perkins told both outlets she believes the intruder entered her home by shifting an air conditioning unit near a window to break in.She told News Center Maine: “Don’t sit and cry about it.”
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