The Bronx mom of the accused pizza-boy rapist yesterday defended her son by outrageously suggesting the victim might have been drunk — an allegation the police have rejected.
The mother told The Post that her son is too slight to force anyone into sex and questioned how he could have raped the Upper West Side woman Saturday without waking her 7-year-old daughter asleep beside her.
“I am not dismissing the woman’s claims, but a lot of what she is saying doesn’t make much sense,’’ said the mom of 16-year-old alleged sex fiend Cesar Lucas, who refused to give her name.
“My son is 16 years old. He isn’t very strong. How is it possible that her daughter didn’t wake up?
The woman said.“His co-workers told me he accidentally rang her bell, and when she opened, he said, ‘I’m sorry,’ and she was drunk.”
But a disgusted law-enforcement source said Lucas is nothing but a sicko who has already confessed to his heinous crime — claiming he raped the woman simply because he was “horny.’’
“He’s delivering a pizza. He gets upstairs. He’s trying doorknobs on her floor. He finds her door open. He goes inside, gets on top of her and rapes her,’’ the source said.
But Lucas’s mom scoffed at the idea her son copped to anything.
“It is possible he confessed out of fear because they forced him to,’’ she said.
The mom said her son has a girlfriend who “thinks it’s a lie,’’ too.
“[She] is very upset. She has told me he has never hurt her. He has always respected her,’’ the woman said.
She said that after the rape, she asked her two daughters, ages 12 and 15, if their brother ever touched them and they said no.
“Then, they cried because they said he doesn’t belong in jail,’’ the mom said.
“This is like a nightmare for us. The day of the alleged crime, he gave me a hug and a kiss before he left for work. ’’
Additional reporting by Jamie Schram