9-year-old girl molested by perv who later died in wreck while fleeing cops haunted by assault: ‘He’s in my head’
The monster who kidnapped and sexually assaulted a Queens child — only to be killed in a car wreck the next day with the police in hot pursuit — is still haunting her, her family told The Post.
“It’s not a dream. He’s in my head,” the 9-year-old girl told her relatives of Wayne Noel, the stranger who grabbed her hand inside a Key Foods, told her not to scream, and snatched her away while her grandmother used a nearby restroom in the grocery store on 213th Street and Jamaica Avenue.
Noel, 64, sexually assaulted the child in his car, an attack which only ended when he realized the girl was enduring her period, her family said.
The girl has been unable to eat, and the entire family has been left reeling, they said.
“We are all in a state of shock,” the aunt said.
“Even now I still can’t believe it. I can’t believe this happened.”
The girl, whose mother lives in another state, is being raised by extended family and calls her grandmother “mommy,” the aunt said.
“She said he walked up to her and held her hand very tightly and forced her to the car,” the aunt recalled.
“While they were leaving, she said she was trying to say something, do a little thing, but he shouted in her ear, ‘Shut up, be quiet or I’ll kill you.’”
“She was so scared — that’s the word she used ‘scared’ — she didn’t know what to do,” said the aunt, who wept as she spoke of the Thursday evening nightmare.
Noel made his victim open the car door and then “dragged her in by her braids,” before driving her a mile away and attacking her, the aunt said.
“She’s just had her first period,” the aunt said.
“She had a pad on. He saw it because he took her underwear off.”
He then drove her back to the store, molested her again then dumped her in the street.
By then, the grandmother was searching frantically.
“They kept calling her on the microphone,” the aunt said of the store’s intercom.
“When she got back … her grandmother asked her, ‘What happened to you?’ and she said, ‘Mommy, I was kidnapped.’”
“She told me it’s still in her mind that he’s coming to kill her,” the girl’s aunt told The Post.
“I said this fool is already dead. He can’t do anything to you. Nothing is going to happen to you. She said, ‘He’s in my mind.’”
Someone called 911 and the NYPD went to work, quickly releasing photos of the attacker and his vehicle.
Detectives spotted Noel in his car around 12:30 p.m. Friday at 212th Street and Hillside Avenue and tried to pull him over.
Noel sped off, barreling through a stop sign and hitting a red Jeep Grand Cherokee, cops said.
He was killed in the crash, authorities said.
His death hasn’t made anything easier for the girl or her family.
“Kill all of them,” the aunt said of child abusers like Noel, adding she was glad he was killed so he couldn’t hurt anyone else.
The victim came to the door with her aunt but didn’t want to speak about the assault.
“She doesn’t want to talk about it,” the aunt said.
“I believe she is very traumatized.”
Noel has four prior arrests — the most recent in 2022 for a robbery on Queens Boulevard during which was armed with a knife and pulled a woman into his car before she managed to escape.
“This is something she won’t ever forget,” the aunt said of Noel’s latest victim.
“She may not be able to understand it fully now but later on, she’s going to grow up and it’s going to affect her.”
