A cowardly creep tried to hide his face from cameras Friday night after cops busted him for allegedly raping a 12-year-old girl in the stairwell of a Brooklyn public housing building a day earlier.

Eric McMichael, 27, wearing a gray plaid shirt, gray shorts, and thick white tights, hunched his torso forward to dodge the flashing cameras as cops dragged him out of Brooklyn’s Special Victims precinct and hauled him off to jail on rape and sex abuse charges for viciously attacking the young girl.

The accused predator approached the preteen and grabbed her as she entered her Cooper Houses building on Morgan Avenue near Jackson Street in Williamsburg around 5:45 p.m. Thursday, police said.

The brute, a complete stranger, told the youngster, “I’m going to violate you” as he shoved her to th

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