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An alleged sex offender from Mexico has been arrested in a series of sexual assaults against women across New York City dating back to June. These included licking a woman’s breasts and tearing a woman’s dress too forcefully. ripped her underwear.
Damian Baeza Rendon, 20, works at a sushi bar and has lived in East Harlem since coming to the United States from Mexico about a year ago, the New York Post reported.
He was allegedly stalking a potential fifth victim around 3:45 a.m. Saturday near E. 104th Street and Fifth Avenue outside Central Park.
So far, Baeza Rendon has been charged with three counts of sexual assault in Manhattan dating back to June, with a fourth charge pending.
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Police arrested Baeza Rendon when he was carrying the same Adidas backpack he had worn in the past three attacks, The New York Daily News reported.
The first groping attack occurred around 11:45 p.m. on June 28, when a 22-year-old woman was walking down E. 89th Street in Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Police said she kissed her chest before fleeing the scene.
The NYPD released a video on Friday showing the assault and footage of a suspect who was about 6 feet tall wearing a black baseball cap and a black shirt with a backwards facing.
About a month later, the suspect was attacked again in Lower Manhattan around 2:20 am on July 31, allegedly grabbing the pelvis and pubic region of a 30-year-old woman on Green Street in SOHO. The shivering victim reportedly refused medical attention.
About three weeks later, the suspect assaulted him again on the Upper East Side, allegedly running behind a 33-year-old woman on East 98th Street who was heading home before 2 a.m. Police said the suspect pulled up her dress, tore her underwear and groped her genitals before fleeing.
At an arraignment hearing in Manhattan Criminal Court on Sunday, he was ordered to post bail of $200,000 on three counts of sexual abuse and one count of forced touching.
He allegedly told the arresting officers, “All I did was touch them,” according to the Post.
Prosecutors told the judge that one of the victims recalled Baeza Rendon “screaming and smiling.”
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“Since a woman was attacked and groped in Manhattan in June, [NYPD Special Victims Unit] New York Police Department Commissioner Keychant Sewell tweeted on Saturday.”Their work will lead the suspect to three more cases in the borough and this morning’s arrest of a 20-year-old man currently charged with sexual abuse.” tied to…”