A violent career criminal who was repeatedly dumped back on the street after being deemed too crazy to stand trial just tried to rape a woman on a Times Square train, cops say.
Homeless maniac Tyriek Martin — who already has at least 70 busts under his belt, including for randomly bashing a 2-year-old autistic girl in the face with a 20-pound suitcase — heinously attacked a female straphanger Thursday, police said.
Martin, 34, was the only other person on the northbound W train approaching the Times Square-42nd Street subway station just before noon when he first smashed his 34-year-old victim’s head against a pole, cops and law-enforcement sources said Friday.
He then threw her to the ground, climbed on top of her and tried to sexually assault her, they said.
The victim struggled and began screaming for help as the train pulled into the major transit hub, a police source said.
Several nearby good Samaritan construction workers heard her cries, boarded the train and held Martin down until cops arrived and cuffed him, the source said.
The victim, who suffered a fractured nose in the brutal midday attack, was taken to a local hospital for treatment, cops said.
Martin was arrested and charged with first-degree attempted rape, first-degree sexual abuse and third-degree assault, authorities said.
The suspect has a long history of mental illness — and a felony-strewn rap sheet stretching back to at least 2006 for crimes such as robbery, drug possession and public lewdness.
But one of his most sickening reported alleged crimes was the attack on the tot in May 2021.
That’s when — muttering and barefoot — he walloped the autistic child as she walked with her mother around 6:25 p.m. near the corner of Bowery and Stanton Street in Lower Manhattan, said cops and the child’s parents.
“I am about to cry, because that was very traumatic for us and my daughter,’’ said the child’s mom, who asked not to be identified, to The Post on Friday when recounting the attack.
“She’s almost 6 years old, and she still has the mark on her face, so it’s something that we see on her face every day,’’ the mother said.
Martin, whose lawyer said at the time that he suffered from severe mental illness, was slapped with felony assault charges and a misdemeanor for endangering the welfare of a child.
He was initially held on $100,000 bail while at Bellevue Hospital.
But the case was eventually ”dismissed by function of law after he was found unfit to stand trial via 730 exam,’’ a spokeswoman with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said.
The rep was referring to the psychiatric exam that defendants must take to prove they are mentally fit to stand trial.
It’s unclear what if any further mental-health treatment he received, but he was back on the street to randomly toss a bottle at a female crossing guard at Bayard and Bowery streets in Lower Manhattan less than a year later, authorities said.
Martin — who told cops on the case that he likes to hit people in the face with bottles — was charged with felony assault and misdemeanor weapons possession.
But he was again freed before trial after he failed another 730 exam, the DA’s office said.
“I don’t know what to say,’’ the injured tot’s mom told The Post.
“This is the second time after [her child’s attack] that somebody’s calling me to say that this guy is off in the street doing something wrong.
“He already hurt a kid, you know, an official from the city, tried to rape a woman. What’s the next?”
The child’s 56-year-old dad, who only gave his first name, Martin, told The Post, “I just don’t have any words.
“I just don’t understand why those guy’s still out there.
“She was a 2-year-old autistic kid and almost lost her eye,’’ he said of his daughter. “That was his 70th assault.
“And then a year later, we got a call from another reporter where he tried to attack a crossing guard.
“As far as I’m concerned, this guy should be thrown away and then the key thrown away.”
When told Martin had been found unfit to stand trial and has bipolar disorder, the dad shot back, “Oh, let’s cry me a river.”
Between the assaults and Thursday’s attempted rape, Martin also was pinched for misdemeanor assault in Manhattan on Aug. 31.
In that case, cops spotted him punching a woman in the head at Broadway and East Houston Street in Lower Manhattan — before he took a swing at an officer and kicked another in the shin, court records allege.
Martin was freed on supervised release as requested by prosecutors.
The charges were not eligible for bail.
Martin, in fact, was busted just last week — on Feb. 15 — for smoking in the subway system, law enforcement sources said. But the district attorney’s office declined to prosecute, sources said.
More than a year before the attack on the tot — on Oct. 23, 2020, Martin was busted for allegedly slugging the owner of a Chinatown building, who refused to let him sleep in the lobby or just outside, police said. The blow left the owner with a minor injury and redness, cops said.
The suspect — whose last known address was a homeless shelter on the Bowery — was still hospitalized Friday and yet to be arraigned in the attempted-rape case.
Residents of the shelter ripped the suspect to The Post on Friday.
“I’ve seen him here eating in the cafeteria, but I’ve never interacted with him,’’ said Anthony Romulus, 60.
“People like that are savages, they are animals. No, that’s not good. I have a young daughter. I would never want that to happen to her or any woman, period!
“Put him in the psych ward. He is not supposed to be walking around among us. … They gave him too many chances. He could have killed someone.”
Additional reporting by Priscilla DeGregory, Georgett Roberts and Kate Sheehy
