Suspected East Village/LES Sex Attacker Caught

The police have arrested a suspect in the series of sexual attacks in the East Village and Lower East Side. Twenty-year-old Harlem resident Asuncion DeJesus-Garcia was charged with sex abuse, burglary, robbery, assault and criminal possession of stolen property.

There have been four attacks on women in the East Village and Lower East Side during June and July with similar M.O.'s: In the early morning, a man would wait for women to enter their apartment buildings, walk up behind them, put them in a chokehold, and assault them. Three of the four victims picked DeJesus-Garcia out of a line-up, and he was charged for the crimes that took place on June 12 on the 100 block of Mott Street, July 7 on the 200 block of First Avenue, and July 13 on East 12th and Avenue A.

The Post reports that a witness spotted DeJesus-Garcia in the in the Lower East Side yesterday. The Post also calls him a "puny 5-foot-3, 125-pound punk."

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By Jen Chung in News on July 26, 2007 3:50 PM

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harrisongaro

14, your post was more full of hate and offensive material than the original post. congrats.

guest

i'd rather rape them.

pik

cheers 14.

guest

Yeah, #12, obviously any woman coming home that late at night must have been drunk and deserved it.

Fuck you. I'm in grad school, and I stay up all night at my school working. You should go to hell for blaming the victims like that. Oh I know, why don't we all just wear burqas and stay home from educational pursuits like good little subjugated Barbies ought to? No wait, I have a better idea. Let's educate men to RESPECT women and not motherfucking rape them.

guest

No way! A hispanic sex offender?!

guest

did he put his mexican jumping bean in drunken females? since these incidents happened in early morning hours.

janelle

gwinny: i read/heard he had a knife, so that probably made it more intimidating. also it was late at night and people were caught off guard.

guest

Achk!!! Another typo!

I have to stop reading the articles on this site. My writing has suffered as a result.

guest

Huzzah!! I hope he goes to jail.

guest

Looks a hell of a lot like that leprechaun that was seen in alabama a couple of years ago:

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/EE/images/uploads/leprechaun.jpg

guest

Sorry, a typo in #6. I meant to say "These types aren't considered "men" in prison, bt considered feminine guys"

guest

#4, that's not true.

The only people who suffer in prison are child molestors, and middle class men who aren't so street smart, feminine guys. These types aren't considered "men" in prison.

Those two groups are despised in prison by both the inmates and the correction officers.

The inmates have no respect for these types, and the correction officers despise the child molestor for obvious reasons, the the middle class guys for class envy.