LORAIN — A 22-year-old Lorain woman contacted police last night to report a man tried to rape her.

The woman, who said she is homeless and lives with her boyfriend in a “tent city” in woods behind 2001 Elyria Ave., said a man she knows only as “Donnie” approached her yesterday morning after her boyfriend left for work.

Police wound up arresting Donald Krogg, 33, a homeless Lorain man. He faces an attempted rape charge.

The woman said Krogg approached her with his genitalia out, pushed her down in a chair, held her down and made demands that she have sex with him.

When she refused, a struggle ensued, according a police report, and he punched her in the stomach and tried to take her clothes off, fondling her between her legs at one point during the struggle.

The woman, who is pregnant, was concerned due to the blow to her stomach, the report said.

She was able to get away from the man and spent the rest of the day at the Gathering Hope House, the report said. When her boyfriend returned home from work he became upset, confronted Krogg and called police.

According to the report, once confronted, Krogg told the woman’s boyfriend, “Yeah, I tried to rape her. She’s the only girl out here in these woods and if that’s the only way I’m going to get some (expletive) then I’ll rape her.”

LifeCare was called to assist the woman. It was unclear if she was taken to a hospital.

Police who went to the “tent city” located Krogg. Upon ordering him out of his tent, he state “I knew (the woman) would send them down here to get me.”

Krogg told police he is a registered sex offender. Police confirmed he had prior convictions for sexual assault and gross sexual imposition. He was taken to the Lorain City Jail.