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11th-hour rape recant

A serial Upper East Side sex fiend threw a giant monkey wrench into his own sentencing yesterday — shocking the judge, prosecutors and his lawyers by reneging on his May guilty plea and sickeningly blaming his two victims.

“The defendant said that he knew both of the victims,” Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Richard Carruthers said at the scuttled sentencing, reading from statements of 22-year-old drug parolee Jason Quinones (pictured).

Quinones claimed that “he went out on dates with the victims. Both consumed alcohol and were drunk,” the judge said.

“The defendant insisted that he did not force anyone into these sexual encounters and that both victims’ statements are false.”

The judge reserved until Aug. 10 his decision on whether to revoke Quinones’ May 9 guilty plea or go forward with the sentencing on a future date. Quinones was to be sentenced to 20 years prison for the two attacks, to which he is linked by DNA he left at the scene.