Three teens from a Brooklyn halfway home have been indicted for raping and robbing a woman in Chinatown, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Sanat Asliev, 17, Emanuel Burrowes, 16, and Erik Pek, 16, snuck out of their juvenile delinquent halfway home on June 1 and then preyed upon an intoxicated 33-year-old woman who was inside an Internet cafe on Eldridge St., court papers say.
The trio groped the woman in the cafe, and then forced her into the stairwell of a nearby apartment building and beat and raped her, prosecutors said. They also stole her cell phone, credit cards, cash and keys, which they used to break into her nearby building.
PROSECUTORS: CHINATOWN RAPE VICTIM FOUGHT OFF ATTACKERS
They were indicted on rape, burglary and robbery charges.
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. said, “I commend this woman for the bravery she exhibited following this horrific attack.”
Burrowes and Pek pleaded not guilty to the charges on Wednesday. Burrowes’ lawyer, Brad Foster, said the case against his client was weak because the only DNA evidence investigators found on the victim was from Asliev.
Asliev is scheduled to be arraigned next week.
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