An 87-year-old girl who woke to discover a stranger standing over her mattress fought him off after which fed him after he instructed her he was "awfully hungry".

Marjorie Perkins was asleep when her teenage attacker entered her residence within the city of Brunswick, Maine, round 2am on 26 July.

As she wakened, the younger man, who had taken off his trousers, instructed her he was going to chop her.

"I thought to myself, 'If's he's going to cut, then I'm going to kick', so I jumped into my shoes," she instructed Brunswick Times Record.

Ms Perkins grabbed a chair to make use of as a protect, however was struck on the cheek and brow through the encounter.

Eventually, {the teenager} grew drained and went into the kitchen, the place he revealed he was "awfully hungry" and "hadn't had anything to eat for quite a while".

So, Ms Perkins gave him a field of peanut butter and honey crackers, two protein drinks and two tangerines.

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She referred to as 911 and was speaking to an operator when {the teenager} collected his trousers and left.

He left behind a knife, a shirt, a pair of sneakers and a water bottle containing alcohol, she mentioned.

The teenager was arrested close by after being tracked by police canine.

He faces prices of housebreaking, prison threatening, assault and underage ingesting.

Ms Perkins, who has change into a little bit of a world celeb because the assault, mentioned she nonetheless feels protected within the residence the place she's lived for 42 years, however worries about rampant crime.

"I think our law has just folded up," she mentioned.

"People aren't afraid of anything anymore. They feel they can do as they please."

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