A homeless predator raped a 36-year-old lady inside her Bronx condominium constructing – prompting the terrified sufferer to ask the stranger how a lot cash it will take for him to cease the brutal assault, prosecutors and sources mentioned.
Kenneth Siriboe, 21, allegedly approached the lady round 5 a.m. Sunday contained in the residential constructing on East Gun Hill Highway close to Putnam Place in Norwood, the place he allegedly coated her mouth with one hand and squeezed her throat with the opposite, based on a prison grievance.
He then threw the lady to the bottom and repeatedly punched her, inflicting bruising, swelling and cuts, the courtroom doc mentioned.
Then Siriboe acquired on high of the sufferer and allegedly raped her, as she screamed, “No, no! Please cease! How a lot can I provide you with to make you cease?” the grievance mentioned.
Siriboe then allegedly grabbed the sufferer’s Coach purse and pockets, holding $250 in money, her ID and her keys earlier than bolting.
Footage launched by the NYPD a number of hours later reveals the suspected sicko pulling up his pants as he fled down the steps of the condominium constructing, with a towel slung over his neck.
It’s unclear how the brute made his approach into the sufferer’s constructing, however he was there for an prolonged time period, sources mentioned.
Siriboe was arrested Monday afternoon inside one other Bronx constructing about two miles from the scene of the assault, police mentioned.
He was charged with rape, theft, housebreaking, grand larceny and prison obstruction of respiration, and ordered held on $30,000 bail throughout his Monday night arraignment, prosecutors mentioned.
Siriboe, whose final recognized deal with is in Union Seaside, NJ, has no prior arrests within the Massive Apple, authorities mentioned.
His subsequent courtroom date is scheduled for Friday.
The intercourse crime got here days after repeat offender Zion Exum, 26, was linked to the Sept. 13 rape of a 25-year-old lady after officers stopped him for leaping a turnstile Friday night time, police mentioned.
Individually, Xavier Chapman, 30, was arrested in connection to the rape of a 19-year-old lady as she sat on a park bench in Belmont early Sept. 17, cops mentioned.
A complete of 399 rapes have been reported within the Bronx thus far this yr, a few 27% enhance from the 314 such assaults counted by the NYPD throughout the identical interval in 2024, based on the division’s stats final up to date Sunday.
Citywide statistics present a surge in rapes, with 1,504 such offenses reported throughout the 5 boroughs thus far this yr – a few 19% enhance from the 1,265 reported throughout that timeframe in 2024.
The NYPD has mentioned the rise may be attributed partly to “legislative adjustments” that broaden the definition of rape and embrace “further types of sexual assault.”
