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What Happened at Hotel Opus and What Comes Next If you are reading this, you or someone you love survived a knifepoint rape inside a room at the Hotel Opus in the Baychester section of the Bronx. The attacker took $400 in cash, forced you to remove your clothes, and assaulted you. The police have video. You were taken to a hospital in stable condition, and the man who did this is still out there. We are sorry. We know the world feels unsafe right now, and we know that every search, every phone call to a lawyer, every decision about what to do next takes a kind of courage you should not have to summon alone. This page is written to you, one person, in a way we hope leaves you less alone and more armed. Here is the truth we want you to carry from the first sentence: a New York hotel does not get to rent a room to a guest and then look the other way when a violent stranger walks in and takes that guest’s life apart. The law in this state, developed over decades by the New York courts, recognizes exactly that responsibility. And…