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Queens rapist sentenced to 25 years as victim scorns him in court

A Queens woman faced down the vicious sexual predator who raped and robbed her inside of her childhood bedroom more than a decade ago, as a judge sentenced the monster to 25 years in prison.

“Mr. Rosales you’re a sad, pathetic, coward,” the now 23-year-old woman scolded Mauricio Rosales, at his sentencing today. Rosales previously pleaded guilty for the sexual assaults and robberies of four women between 2000 to 2005 throughout Queens.

The victim, who’s name is being withheld due to the nature of the crime, painfully remembered the early Friday morning in October 2000 when she was awoken by a stranger’s hand over her mouth who told her, “Shut up or I’ll kill you.”

After he raped her at knifepoint, the serial pervert robbed her of such personal items as a Game Boy and cable box among other property.

The young woman, who has since suffered from anorexia and cutting — and who continues extensive therapy sessions since the horrendous crime — told her assailant, “Mr. Rosales, you may not have killed me that morning, but you killed who I could have been.”

Her mother, too, vented her scorn for the fiend. “This was a murder, it felt like a death to me,” the mother said. “She never returned to her bedroom since that day, we had to throw out her posters and dolls because this child didn’t exist anymore.

“I’m praying that the devil has his way with you,” the woman lashed into Rosales.

Rosales, 34 of Jamaica, admitted in June to breaking into the then 12-year-old girl’s bedroom in 2000, but briefly recanted his plea to Queens Supreme Court Justice Richard Buctner and said, “If she thinks I raped her I’m sorry.”

The judge wasn’t having any of it and threatened to revoke Rosales’ guilty plea and go to trial.

“Did you rape her?!” the judge angrily bellowed.

“Yes,” Rosales replied through a Spanish interpreter as he clenched his black Bible.

“You’re a predator, deviant, pervert … a cancer to the community,” the judge said before sending Rosales away for the promised 25 years.

The Mexican immigrant, who is married with two young sons, left traces of semen behind with three of his victims whom he held up either at knife-point or a with concealed weapon.

Rosales’ DNA sample, which was given after he pleaded guilty in November 2009 to a petty-larceny charge, made the database labs “light up like a pinball machine” which linked him to the six year stretch of rapes, according to prosecutor Eric Rosenbaum.

In 2003, the creep attacked one of his victims as she was on the phone outside of her home, dragged her into the driveway where he raped and mugged.

His second victim that year, fought him off which prevented her from being raped, but was also robbed.

The sexual molesters last known victim in 2005, was confronted at an elevated subway platform with what was believed to be a gun and he masturbated on her.

Rosales requested protective custody before he left the courtroom and upon completion of his sentence will either serve 10 years probation or be deported back to Mexico.