NYC: Muslim migrant cab driver sexually assaults passenger, is let off the hook and is back driving cab
Of course. Any other outcome would have been “Islamophobic.”
Woman flees NYC after cabbie allegedly gropes her
and is let off hook by DA Bragg: ‘I was so scared’
by David Spector, Tina Moore and Kathianne Boniello, New York Post, November 15, 2025:
He’s hell on wheels.
An Algerian immigrant NYC cabbie driving without a partition or a camera allegedly assaulted two women in the back of his yellow taxi in separate incidents — and is still on the road, thanks to soft-on-crime Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, according to sources and court documents.
Mohammed Bellebia, 34, was allowed to plead guilty to lesser charges in at least one of the incidents, records showed.
One victim, Maile Bartow, 23, climbed into Bellebia’s yellow cab minivan around 2 a.m. on Nov. 10, 2024 to head home after a night on the town with friends, and said the hack touched her leg twice, ignoring her pleas for him to stop before groping her genitals, according to a lawsuit.
Bartow, who had always dreamed of living in Gotham and moved to the city in August after a stint in Nashville, left the Big Apple for good because of her NYC nightmare.
About a month later, on Dec. 12, 2024, Bellebia picked up a 2 a.m. fare, allegedly touching that woman’s leg throughout the ride and trying to remove the 33-year-old victim’s underwear, a law enforcement source told The Post.
“Oh my God,” Bartow gasped when she learned of the other alleged victim from The Post.
In Bartow’s case, Bellebia was facing misdemeanor charges of forcible touching and sexual abuse and could have faced a sentence from probation to a year in jail.
Instead, he pleaded guilty in March to disorderly conduct, a mere violation, and was set free on a conditional discharge — meaning he was get no jail time as long as he stayed out of trouble, records showed….
“I finished the problem from a woman,” the Arabic-speaking hack from Bay Ridge told The Post, sharing paperwork from the criminal case showing it had been sealed. He then called a friend to translate, who quickly declined further comment on his behalf.
The charges in the alleged Dec. 12, 2024 incident are unclear. The case has since been sealed.
“Why is this a problem for you … my case is finished talk to my lawyer,” Bellebia said when reached for comment a second time, hanging up when asked if he was in the country illegally….
The cabbie’s license was suspended and he was off the road from December 2024 until March, when it was reinstated, according to a source….
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