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An elderly woman bravely took the stand Monday to confront the teen on trial for raping her when he broke into her Brooklyn home.

The 83-year-old, who has been unable to walk since the brutal incident, was wheeled into Brooklyn Supreme Court past defendant Asa Robert to recount what she called rCLthe most disgusting thingrCY that has ever happened to her.

rCLAfter he raped and tortured me, he brought me a bottle of water,rCY the grandmother said of the then-18-year-old Robert. rCLAnd he brought me my [medical] alert button.rCY

Robert suffocated, raped and sodomized the frail, 4-foot-5-inch, 90-pound widow, she testified, recalling how he lifted her by the neck and threw her against the wall.

The widow, whose name is being withheld, recalled how sherCOd even offered to give Robert a keepsake Hawaiian shirt sherCOd purchased for her late husband rCo telling him, rCLYou look very nice,rCY in a bid to get him to leave without harming her.

But as he walked toward the front door after looting the Brighton Beach home sherCOd shared with her husband, all of a sudden, he turned, and ordered her to get rCLback in the bedroom,rCY where he raped her, ignoring her pleas that he call 911 because rCLI felt like I was having a heart attack.rCY

rCLHe was on top of me like a pile of bricks,rCY she recalled, her voice steady. rCLIt felt like he was trying to crush me to death.

rCLIt took a long time for him to get off,rCY the octogenarian told jurors. rCLHe continued no matter what I said.rCY

While she did not directly address Robert rCo who sat sulking at the defense table and could be heard muttering to his attorney that the witness rCLis just an old womanrCY rCo she seemed to freeze when she was asked to identify him, before swallowing and then describing him as her attacker.

Robert, now 20, sneaked into the home after the woman left the front door open to clean outside rCo which her son-in-law previously testified she did compulsively. She didnrCOt realize he was in her house until she lay down in bed and saw the shadow of a man rocking back and forth in the corner of her bedroom.

She said he then tore through her home, rCLrummagingrCY through belongings, brandishing a knife and demanding money before raping her.

After he left, she called her son-in-law, who phoned police and paramedics.

She didnrCOt disclose her rape until nearly a week later, after the pain became rCLtoo much to handlerCY and family members noticed a handprint-shaped bruise on her face.

Robert faces 25 years to life in prison on the top charge of predatory sexual assault if convicted.

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