It took less than two hours for a Manhattan jury today to convict a Bronx man who'd been linked by DNA to 19-year-old' college student's violent rape on Prince Street in 2008.
"He may have gotten away that day," prosecutor Shannon Lucey had told jurors of Andres Suarez, 30. "But he left his mark."
Suarez had indeed skated for more than three years, only getting tied to the attack after his DNA was swabbed for the state database after a recent assault arrest and it matched DNA left at the rape scene.
Jurors had heard the woman describe the attack on the witness stand. Suarez had stalked her by subway from Brooklyn, following her home to her Prince Street apartment building and then pushing his way inside behind her.
"I just shut off," she testified tearfully of how she braved the attack on the concrete floor of her building's courtyard, Suarez's box-cutter at her throat.
"I kind of went somewhere else," she said.
Suarez had alluded that his DNA wound up at the scene because of consensual sex.
Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance credited the fast conviction to his office's Sex Crimes unit -- and to the courage of the victim, who now lives in Germany.
Suarez gets sentenced on predatory sex assault, rape, burglary and sex abuse by Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Gregory Carro on Dec. 12.
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