Was it something I did?
Minutes after allegedly beating, stripping and raping a 21-year-old actress in Hudson River Park in TriBeCa, a sex fiend claimed he was zonked on Four Loko drinks and asked cops, “Did I do something wrong?”
“Because I don’t remember,” claimed Jonathan Stewart as cops corralled him at dawn on Sept. 22 on a median at West Street and North Moore Street.
Still, a week later, he was caught on a jail pay phone trying to worm out of parole violation charges — the least of his worries — by telling his parole officer, “All I did was touch her breasts and I made her take off her clothes.”
Stewart’s statements were released today as he sat cuffed in a gray jail jumpsuit at a defense table in Manhattan Supreme Court and pleaded not guilty to predatory sexual assault, rape, sodomy and sex abuse.
Prosecutor Alyssa Gunther said the DA’s Office would agree to no less than 40 years prison for Stewart, who at 25 is already a convicted top-level sex offender with seven years prison under his belt for robbing and sexually abusing a female relative.
“I just woke up,” Stewart claimed as cops arrested him, according to his statements. It was just 20 minutes after the attack, and the terrified victim was already in an ambulance, about to identify him through the window, court papers revealed.
“Why are you arresting me?” Stewart griped. “I did nothing wrong. I’m homeless. I’m schizophrenic. I drank four or five Four Lokos,” he said, referring to a canned alcohol-caffeine drink.
“Are you taking me to a shelter?”
Once inside the First Precinct, Stewart told cops he’d been partying with friends at a club on 14th Street and at Baruch Houses — and had consumed “five Four Lokos, Grey Goose Vodka, smoked marijuana and K2.”
A week later, he seemed more concerned with violating parole. “When are you going to serve me with my violation papers?” he asked his parole officer by telephone, the statements say.
“So you know they reduced it to forcible touching,” he said. “I think they’re going to make it a violation because the doctor said the DNA came back negative.”
“I don’t even know what I was thinking but at no point did I have intercourse with her,” he claimed.
Prosecutors say Stewart actually raped the victim twice — putting her in a choke hold and dragging her off a bench and into bushes and violating her, then dragging her back and violating her again when she managed to break free and start to run away.