NYC Migrants — Including One Charged in Sex Assault 4 Months Ago — Raped Woman at Knifepoint, Beat Her Boyfriend
Joe Marino et al., New York Post, August 12, 2024
Two migrants were arrested for a knifepoint rape in Coney Island – including one who was released from jail less than two months ago after sexually assaulting a different woman at a city-funded shelter, authorities said Monday.
Daniel Davon-Bonilla, 24, of Nicaragua, allegedly grabbed a 46-year-old woman and threw her to the ground before raping her while holding a knife to her throat Sunday around 9 p.m. under the Riegelmann Boardwalk, cops and the sources said.
His alleged accomplice, identified as Mexican migrant Leovando Moreno, 37, is accused of striking the woman’s 34-year-old boyfriend with a pipe when he tried to stop the vicious assault, the sources said.
NYC migrants allegedly raped woman at knifepoint in Coney Island: police sources https://t.co/YzHZ197JOl pic.twitter.com/hLFj3ealKG
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It wasn’t the first sex crime bust for Davon-Bonilla, who is believed to have crossed the US border illegally in Texas in December 2022.
Four months later, he was arrested for allegedly raping a woman at a La Quinta Hotel on Third Avenue in Park Slope that was turned into a migrant shelter.
He spent about a year behind bars before taking a plea deal that put him back on the streets in June, according to corrections officials and Brooklyn prosecutors.
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Davon-Bonilla was charged with first-degree rape, second-degree assault, first-degree sexual abuse, menacing and criminal possession of a weapon, the sources said. {snip}
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Davon-Bonilla appears to have eventually moved to New York City, with sources saying he lived at the La Quinta — where he was accused of raping a 34-year-old woman on April 3, 2023, pulling her hair and holding her down as he attacked her, according to a criminal complaint.
He was charged with criminal sexual act, unlawful imprisonment as a hate crime, sexual misconduct and sexual abuse, according to a criminal complaint.
The Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office said it struck a deal with Davon-Bonilla that granted him credit for time served behind bars in exchange for a guilty plea to assault in the second degree as the victim did not want to testify.
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It was not clear why Davon-Bonilla was allowed to remain in the US after he was released from jail in June.
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