A serial predator was convicted of the 2007 kidnapping and sexual abuse of a 4-year-old Hasidic girl — and was sentenced Friday to the maximum 32 years behind bars.
Tommaso Dillillo, 35, snatched the Brooklyn girl from her stoop in Borough Park, abused her in his car and then dumped the helpless child blocks from her home.
“She was playing wedding,” the girl’s distraught father said in Brooklyn Criminal Court, describing the pretend veil his daughter was wearing when she was abducted.
“Being a child who grew up with parents who survived the Holocaust and hearing their horror stories, I never would have dreamed of such a crime being perpetrated on our family,” he said as his wife sobbed in the gallery behind him and prosecutors wiped away tears.
“To take my 4¹/₂-year-old child and throw her out on a desolate street, by the grace of God something worse did not happen to her,” the father said as Dillillo stared straight ahead, expressionless.
“She was roaming up and down the street looking for her mother and father,” he added, until a good Samaritan found her and called cops.
The sicko on Nov. 12 was convicted of kidnapping and first-degree sexual abuse but almost got away with the heinous crime because the statute of limitations had nearly run out.
Cops had a DNA sample from the girl’s clothing but could not find a match to a suspect back in 2007.
They got another DNA sample of the same attacker from a 14-year-old Hasidic girl who was snatched off the street and sexually assaulted in 2008 — but still had no match to a perp. It wasn’t until the serial perv was busted in 2009 for pimping out a 15-year-old girl that investigators were able to get a DNA sample from Dillillo and determine it matched both earlier samples.
The statute of limitations was about to expire on the 2007 attack.
“Without the evidence [from the girl’s clothing], we wouldn’t have been able to proceed and that would have been a travesty of justice,” Assistant DA Sarena Horowitz Townsend said in court.
Dillillo, who pleaded guilty to a sex-trafficking charge involving the 15-year-old, replied “No” when asked if he anything to say.
“He has no remorse for anything he’s done,” Judge William Harrington said before handing down the maximum penalties of 25 years for the kidnapping and seven years for the sexual assault.