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“These decisions directly threaten public safety. A pandemic is no excuse for releasing prisoners from jail. They combine the maximum threat to the many with the maximum benefit to the undeserving.” (Paul Schnee)
NYC man released from Rikers Island over coronavirus arrested on new rape charge: report
By Danielle Wallace | Fox News | April 25, 2020:
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A Brooklyn man was arrested Saturday for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman just 10 days after he was released from Rikers Island over concerns about the spread of the coronavirus behind bars, according to a report.
Robert Pondexter, 57, was being held at the notorious New York City prison on a separate rape charge when he was released.
He was charged Saturday with attempted rape and sexual assault among other offenses, the New York Post reported, citing anonymous police sources.
NYPD responded to a 911 call at about 5:45 a.m. in Brooklyn’s Flatbush neighborhood.
The caller told police a man had been walking across the street from a supportive housing development when he allegedly grabbed a 58-year-old woman whom he did not know by the collar and pulled her into a school parking lot.
The woman told officers he forced her to perform oral sex and demanded that she remove her pants before she was able to kick away from him. She was transported to a local hospital.
Details of the arrest were not immediately available.
Pondexter was released from Rikers Island on April 15 as part of the facility’s effort to improve social distancing and prevent the spread of COVID-19, the Post reported. He had been held for allegedly raping a different woman who he used drugs with.
Fox News has reached out to the New York City Department of Corrections to confirm the report.
Two weeks ago, a convicted murderer who also had been released from Rikers Island over coronavirus concerns was back behind bars after allegedly trying to rob a bank in lower Manhattan on April 7, the Daily News reported.
James Little, 41, who was released on parole following his 1995 murder conviction, had been arrested on March 3 for allegedly beating and choking his girlfriend inside her Brooklyn home. He spent three weeks at Rikers Island before he was cleared for release on March 28 after his attorneys argued the jail was a hotbed for infection.
An inmate and a correction officer at Rikers Island both tested positive for COVID-19 in mid-March, union officials and the state corrections department confirmed. Gov. Andrew Cuomo later cleared the way for about 1,200 non-violent offenders who were being held for parole violations to be released from Rikers Island amid concerns about the spread of infection at the facility.
Since then, at least six staff members have died from coronavirus and more than 900 other employees have tested positive, the Queens Eagle reported.
At least 373 inmates have tested positive. The first inmate death was reported on April 5, according to The New York Times.
The jail population has been reduced by 1,669 inmates since March 16, with some 3,888 inmates remaining in custody at Rikers Island, according to a Board of Correction COVID-19 update published Thursday.
New York had 282,143 confirmed coronavirus cases and 22,009 deaths as of Sunday morning, according to Johns Hopkins University.
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17 Comments
4 years ago
None of this surprises me. This is what they are.
4 years ago
Cuomo and De Blasio are incompetent, reckless an criminal. The first Covid outbreak in the US was in a long term care facility in the State of Washington. Despite this warning, they did nothing to protect the population in long-term care facilities and exacerbated the death rate by sending infected patients back to these same facilities to spread the infection.
The death rate-to-infection is now 11% in NYC, roughly double the rest of the country.This is a scathing indictment of the grossly inadequate NYC hospital network, and its even worse public hospitals. How do you explain the fact that just a few miles away in Nassau Cty, and in the surrounding counties, the death rate is much lower.
NYC is governed by reckless Leftist scum. If you value your life, get as far away from NYC as possible.
4 years ago
Reply to
Worsethanitlooks
They know what they are doing. They are communists using lawless chaos to take over. At some point they may see Trump as not working and need a change. They are being brainwashed to embrace Marxism.
It’s not just happening in NYC. It is happening in large DEM run cities and DEM elected Governors and prosecutors. Much of it is financed by SOROS and put into postion. Think back to that guy in Chicago, Jussie Smollett, who created a racist hoax against Trump and his supporters and a SOROS paid prosecutor dropped ALL charges.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-jussie-smollett/jussie-smollett-hoax-charge-dropped-by-chicago-prosecutors-prompting-mayors-rebuke-idUSKCN1R71YI
Soros Helps Save Prosecutor Who Dropped Jussie Smollett Charges After Hate Crime Hoax
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/soros-helps-save-prosecutor-who-dropped-jussie-smollett-charges-after-hate-crime-hoax/
We are at war within our own country.
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
We’ve been at war with the democratic party since the President was elected. The problem is that too many Republicans don’t want to be at war and they think it will all calm down. It won’t.
4 years ago
Expect more of this. It is being done on purpose. Businesses are still closed down so financial crime will go up and so will rapes, murders, assaults etc..They want to break down our society with lawlessness to replace it with something else. They will not change this till TRUMP is out.
They want absolute chaos and ideally fear mongering to totally crash our economy so the freebie candidate can replace Trump. Youth LOVES China. They like the ideal of “social justice” and the government will take care of me like China. They don’t know history and getting lied to about Communism.
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Yes, those of us who can still be objective and reason, can see it coming, Felix.
4 years ago
We can not allow this to happen!
4 years ago
Unconscionable…!!!
4 years ago
If that was my daughter !he moron and the ones who released her would be given a huge does of lead poisoning!
4 years ago
4 years ago
Who knew that releasing convicted criminals would turn to crime once let out without supervision? Hmm… Anyone with an IQ over 90, that is who would know.
A rapist let out who rapes again. Who knew that this might happen again? Not Cuomo or DeBlasio, and dem Dems is supposed to be smart.
4 years ago
Releasing inmates to stem the spread of COVID-19 is like trying to put out a fire by throwing gasoline on it.
Being incarcerated is as socially distant as you can get.
4 years ago
AMERICANS WE HAVE TO TAKE BACK OUR AMERICA FROM THE EVIL CRIMINAL ACTS OF DEMOCRATS………………………..TO SOLVE AMERICAS PROBLEMS MAKE THIS CHOICE WE THE PEOPLE’ HAVE THE POWER OF OUR VOICES AND OUR VOTES, TO VOTE OUT THE ENTIRE LYING,CORRUPT, TREASONOUS DEMOCRAT PARTY COME NOV 2020, VOTE TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN AND TO END ALL CORRUPTIONS IN WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT
“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” (Isaiah 5:20).
4 years ago
Why do we care if rapists, murderers etc get the chinese virus?
If they die, not only will it save a lot of money, but it ensures they’ll never do it again!
4 years ago
Reply to
evangeline golding
do you see the Up-Surge in Allah’s War against White Unbelievers?
check the Edward Behr book..
”Anyone Here been Raped and Speaks English”. c 1969
we are feeling over 100 yrs of Rampant Warlord Islamist Slavers .
hide the women.. Hide the Children. ????
4 years ago
Reply to
Dan Roley
Yeah, I see it.
And it could be solved very quickly if any of the worlds political’leaders’ had any balls…
4 years ago
FOR TOLERANCE!
