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‘Dirty rapist’ jailed 17 years for kidnap, sexual assault that lasted hours
New York- A self-described “dirty rapist,” who sexually assaulted a woman last year for hours at gunpoint on a Queens street was sentenced, Thursday, to 17 years in prison.
Jailed: George Persaud
After his arrest for the December 29 attack, George Persaud, 24, blamed drugs for his behaviour.
“I’m a dirty rapist,” Persaud said in a taped conversation with cops, according to a prosecutor. “That’s clearly me. I guess I raped her.”
Prosecutors said Persaud, of Ozone Park with his family, reportedly migrating from Guyana, approached a 40-year-old woman on 93rd Street in Jamaica shortly before midnight and displayed what appeared to be a firearm, according to the New York Daily News.
“Don’t do anything stupid or I’ll kill you,” he told her, prosecutors said.
Cops said the attacker forced the woman to a secluded area, where he made her perform a sex act on him and raped her for hours in the back seat of her car.
She escaped when Persaud stepped out of the vehicle to relieve himself, and she used her spare set of keys to drive away.
Persaud was arrested a week later by cops who had video of the suspect walking in the area of the attack. According to court records, a palm print was retrieved from a window inside the victim’s car and matched to the defendant.
“This is an offense that is every woman’s worst nightmare,” said Queens Judge Richard Buchter. “The victim was repeatedly sodomised then raped by him, then locked in the back of her trunk and her keys taken away from her.”
Buchter said Persaud faces 15 years of supervised release after his prison sentence.
“The defendant’s actions were disgusting and unacceptable in a civilised society,” said Acting Queens DA John Ryan. “The term of incarceration ordered by the court is appropriate and I hope gives the victim some comfort knowing he will be locked away for a long time.”
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