{"id":187444,"date":"2026-04-06T19:01:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T19:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/187444\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T19:01:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T19:01:34","slug":"sicko-stayed-coldly-silent-in-sex-attack-on-nyc-teen-as-she-pleaded-for-mercy-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/187444\/","title":{"rendered":"Sicko stayed coldly silent in sex attack on NYC teen as she pleaded for mercy: sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A creep who allegedly forced himself on a 16-year-old girl inside his Bronx apartment chillingly ignored her as she pleaded with him to stop, prosecutors and law enforcement sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Alleged sicko Edward Iciano, 25, attacked the girl \u2014 who was an acquaintance \u2014 inside his University Heights apartment overnight Friday, didn\u2019t respond to her pleas as she repeatedly told him \u201cno,\u201d according to a criminal complaint.<\/p>\n<p>Iciano is accused of forcing off the girl\u2019s pants sometime between 3 and 9 a.m. inside the second-floor unit  in a Davidson Avenue building, according to court documents.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39005467\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2026-25-year-old-suspect-125057651.jpg\" alt=\"Edward Iciano, 25, is accused of sexually assaulting the teen early Friday inside a second-floor unit within the building on Davidson Avenue near West 190th Street in University Heights, according to the criminal complaint. \" class=\"wp-image-39005467\"  \/>Edward Iciano, 25, is accused of sexually assaulting the teen early Friday inside a second-floor unit within the building on Davidson Avenue near West 190th Street in University Heights, according to the criminal complaint.  Kyle Mazza\/NurPhoto\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.72390572;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39005468\" width=\"1017\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2026-25-year-old-suspect-125057641.jpg\" alt=\"Edward Iciano, 25, is accused of sexually assaulting the teen early Friday inside a second-floor unit within the building on Davidson Avenue near West 190th Street in University Heights, according to the criminal complaint.\" class=\"wp-image-39005468\"  \/>Iciano was charged with rape, sexual misconduct and endangering the welfare of a child, authorities said.  Kyle Mazza\/NurPhoto\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>The alleged creep was arrested following an investigation by the NYPD\u2019s Bronx Special Victims Unit and charged with rape, sexual misconduct and endangering the welfare of a child, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was ordered held without bail during his Saturday arraignment and will reappear in court on Wednesday, prosecutors said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Iciano had no previous arrests, cops said. It wasn\u2019t immediately clear how the two knew each other or why she was in the apartment at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A creep who allegedly forced himself on a 16-year-old girl inside his Bronx apartment chillingly ignored her as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[3283,128,303,57,9,24,63,75129,3018,5161,129,131,130,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-187444","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-arrests","9":"tag-bronx","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-pervs","16":"tag-rape","17":"tag-sexual-assaults","18":"tag-the-bronx","19":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","20":"tag-the-bronx-news","21":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}