A serial Upper East Side sex fiend threw a giant monkey wrench into his own sentencing today — 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 proceeding, reading from the recent pre-sentencing statements of drug parolee Jason Quinones, 22.
In his statements, Quinones gallingly claimed that, “He went out on dates with the victims. Both consumed alcohol and were drunk,” the judge announced.
“The defendant insisted that he did not force anyone into these sexual encounters and that both victims statements are false.”
The visibly angry judge reserved until August 10 his decision on whether to revoke Quinones’ detailed, May 9 guilty plea or go forward with the sentencing on a future date.
Quinones, a father of a three-year-old son who was on parole for a 2009 Manhattan drug sale conviction, had been set to be sentenced to 20 years prison today for the two attacks, to which he is linked by DNA he left at the scene.
In the first attack, last July, he’d pushed his way into the East 83rd St. apartment of his victim, pushing her onto a couch and sexually abusing her.
Two months later, Quinones crawled through the window of a sleeping woman’s East 90th St. apartment. The woman woke to find Quinones raping her, prosecutors said.
Quinones left his fingerprints on that woman’s window and guard lock, and the DNA from both attacks matched Quinones’ DNA on record from his drug conviction — otherwise, he might never have been caught, prosecutors said.
Despite the compelling forensics, he has convinced his family members of his innocence.
“My brother is a good man,” his sister, Jasmine Santiago, 25, told reporters. “He loves his family. What everybody is saying about him is not true. I believe him. I always will.”