Ecuadorean migrant Christian Inga was criminally charged Wednesday with first-degree rape, two counts of kidnapping, predatory sexual assault, and other crimes for attacking two 13-year-olds who were in Kissena Corridor Park in the middle of the afternoon on June 13. He allegedly held the two children at knifepoint in a wooded area where he tied the hands of the boy and girl together with a shoelace and then raped the girl. Inga, 25, who lived at a rooming house near Waldron Street and 108th Street in Corona, was arraigned in Queens Criminal Court on Wednesday afternoon and remanded without bail by Judge Joanne Watters.
If convicted, Inga faces 25 years to life in prison. According to the charges, at around 3:30 p.m.
on June 13, Inga approached the two children as they played soccer in the Flushing park after school and brandished a long-bladed knife or machete. He tied the children to one another and gagged them with pieces of cloth. He forcibly took the cell phones from both kids and raped the girl before running out of the park.
“This attack on two children in broad daylight in a city park strikes the very core of our society,” Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said. “According to the complaint, this defendant confronted the boy and girl, tied the children to one another, gagged them, and then raped the girl before fleeing the park. Thank you to the brave victims for coming forward and the NYPD for its quick action in apprehending the defendant who will now face .