A migrant transgender woman wanted by federal immigration officials allegedly stalked and raped a boy in Manhattan this week, The Post has reported.
Nicol Suarez allegedly followed the 14-year-old into the bathroom of a bodega across the street from Thomas Jefferson Park in East Harlem Tuesday and attacked him, police and sources said.
The boy then left the bathroom and flagged down witnesses, who alerted police, the sources said.
Suarez, 30, who is originally from Colombia, was arrested nearby the following day and charged with first-degree rape.
Suarez was wanted in New Jersey and Massachusetts at the time, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had a detainer on her, a law enforcement source said.
The nature of the out-of-state charges wasn’t immediately available.
An ICE detainer is a request to law enforcement agencies to hold an individual so they can be taken into federal custody.
The case shows why the city should end its sanctuary city status for dangerous criminals, a source said.
“It just goes to show that Donald Trump and [border czar] Tom Homan are correct that you need to get the violent people out of New York City and Eric Adams, Letitia James and Kathy Hochul should all cooperate because this person has an ICE detainer,” the source said.
“ICE could just pick this person up and deport them back,” the source said.
“But due to our sanctuary laws we can’t do anything.”
Prosecutors initially asked for $500,000 bail and $1.5 million bond for Suarez, the law enforcement source said.
But Judge Elizabeth Shamahs, who became a judge in January after she was elected on the Democratic ticket, lowered the amount to $100,000 bail or $250,000 bond, online court records show.
“I feel really bad for the kid that has to go through this because his life will never be the same,” the source said. “We worry about the migrants but what about the victim? This is a true victim.”
Suarez was being held on Rikers Island, online records showed Saturday.
“This rapist should be deported so he can’t do that to any other innocent young boy,” Lindsaey Gonzalez said.
“That boy must be traumatized a lot for the rest of his life,” Gonzalez, 24, said. ‘I feel bad for him because I’m a mother.”
A nearby deli owner, not the store in which the attack occurred, said children come from the park to his deli everyday to get candy and shacks. He was visibly shaken when he heard what happened.
“Oh my God, that is disgusting,” said Azid Haime, 59, owner of 2234 East Side Deli.
“He destroyed that little boy’s life!” he said. “All my body is shaking, I want to sit. I can’t explain how I feel. I’m more than angry.”
