The Ecuadorian migrant charged with raping a 13-year-old girl he bound and gagged in a Queens park told cops he recorded the attack during a sickening taped confession, prosecutors alleged Wednesday.
The chilling admission by Christian Geovanny Inga-Landi, 25, broke the otherwise-hushed court hearing in which he was arraigned on charges of rape, kidnapping and a raft of other felonies from the shocking June 13 attack in Kissena Park.
“I was nervous at first, then got comfortable and recorded it,” Inga-Landi admitted in the video, prosecutors said in Queens Criminal Court, drawing sighs from the audience.
Inga-Landi, who had scratches visible on his face, scowled and kept his head down throughout the arraignment, including as a judge ordered him held without bail until his next court appearance July 1.
The shocking videotaped statement, a transcript of which was read in court by Assistant District Attorney Kasey Esposito, revealed new details about the broad-daylight attack in which the girl and a boy, both 13, were held at knifepoint with a “machete-style” blade.
Inga-Landi, who contended he had a drug problem, told cops he stumbled across the two teens having “sexual relations,” Esposito read.
He pulled out a knife he found in the park and threatened the teens with it, he told authorities.
The migrant tied the teens together with a shoelace, stuffed a bandana in the girl’s mouth and cut off her shorts and underwear, Inga-Landi allegedly said in the video.
“I went to buy drugs, afterwards,” he said, according to prosecutors.
The assault prompted a five-day manhunt that ended Tuesday in a dramatic, caught-on-video takedown by neighborhood good Samaritans who said they recognized Inga-Landi as the wanted rapist, swarmed him and tied him up.
“Once we noticed it was him, everyone just was going crazy on him,” said Angela Sauretti, who called 911 while her brother pounded on the suspect.
