A construction worker posing as a neighborhood watch volunteer brutally
raped a drunken woman in a West Village stairwell last month — and the
entire 15-minute ordeal was caught on tape, prosecutors said.The video evidence led a Manhattan grand jury to indict Ivan Ramos, 22, on two counts of rape and three counts of criminal sexual act.
He pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Wednesday.
Ramos, who has a lengthy rap sheet, posed as a good Samaritan when he approached the 29-year-old victim on April 15, assistant district attorney Craig Ortner told the judge.
Ramos offered to accompany the woman to an ATM so she could get cab money, the prosecutor said.
The woman, who was too drunk to remember her PIN, asked him to take her to the police, but Ramos took her down a stairwell on Perry St. and sexually assaulted her, the prosecutor said.
A judge granted the prosecutor’s request to increase his bail to $500,000.
“We’re going to wait on the results of any DNA testing, which I’m sure will vindicate him,” Ramos’ lawyer, Mel Reiss, said.
