The so-called “Pizza Boy Rapist” pleaded not guilty to rape and burglary today as police released his creepy, misspelled, barely literate handwritten confession.
“Cesar got type of disea in away he never had felted before,” Cesar Lucas, 16, described of having entered the sleeping victim’s unlocked, W. 61st Street apartment after midnight on a September morning, after delivering a pie to another floor.
“I unrap her from all the coushing she had on top of her…She also started to feel horny, you can say,” the teenaged monster told cops.
“She was completely drunk,” he claimed. “I really was pretty scare because she was drunk and I kind ah took advantage of her.”
Lucas wore an orange jail jumpsuit and sat in handcuffs in Manhattan Supreme Court.
He kept his eyes cast down at the defense table, but lifted his head briefly to speak the words “Not guilty” in a strong, defiant-sounding voice.
“He’s just a kid saying not guilty in a way that was comfortable for him,” said his lawyer, Gary Villanueva. “I wouldn’t read defiance into it.”
The teen worked for his father’s pizzeria on the same street as the attack.
The victim was raped as her seven-year-old daughter slept next to them in the bed. Afterward the attacker stole $20 from the little girl’s purse, authorities said.
Lucas initially denied the rape — but not the break-in — when he was arrested shortly afterward, according to police statements released after this morning’s hearing.
“What’s going on? Why are you arresting me? I’ve been arrested before for the same thing. I broke into an apartment. It’s still pending. I have to go to court,” he said.
Lucas was referring to burglary charges from a month before, when he allegedly crept into a sleeping West 42nd Street woman’s apartment — again while delivering pizza in her building — and swiped her wallet. He has pleaded not guilty to that burglary.
Lucas eventually told authorities that he committed the rape, but put all the blame on his otherwise undescribed “disea.” “Cesar didn’t realized what kind of things he was about to do or make,” he told cops.
The teen is back in court January 22.