article_snippet: In October 2012, Elisa Lopez was sexually assaulted while napping on a subway train in New York City, and the entire incident was caught on video and spread online like wildfire.
article_snippet: Vile attack: On October 20, 2012, Elisa Lopez (right) was sleeping aboard a downtown 4 train when a middle-aged man sat next to Elisa Lopez and stuck a middle-aged man hand up Elisa Lopez skirt (left).
article_snippet: The denim-clad stranger got off a subway train in New York City and vanished after Elisa Lopez punched a middle-aged man in the face and fled .
article_snippet: Attack on Lopez took place at around 4am October 20, 2012, aboard a downtown 4 train near Lexington Avenue and 42nd Street in Manhattan.
article_snippet: Elisa Lopez, then a 21-year-old member of the Air National Guard, was on her way downtown to meet her boyfriend after attending a party in The Bronx when her briefly dozed off on a subway train in New York City, instinctively clutching her purse.
article_snippet: her woke up moments later to discover a stranger caressing her thigh and face and trying to kiss her.
article_snippet: The terrified straphanger punched the pervert in the face and fled the subway.
article_snippet: The grainy cell phone footage recorded by Brooklyn man Jasheem Smiley depicts a middle-aged man dressed in a faded denim jacket and jeans shoving 43-year-old Carlos Chuvo (left) hand under the sleeping woman's skirt and groping The terrified straphanger.
article_snippet: Determined to see the woman abuser behind bars, Elisa Lopez released a video of the woman own explaining the circumstances of the attack this past December and launched a Facebook campaign appealing to fellow users for help in bringing the subway groper to justice.