White Plains, NY (WRGB) \u2014 A 22-year-old Queens man has been charged with raping and sexually abusing an unconscious woman for hours inside a stairwell at the White Plains City Center, according to Westchester County District Attorney Susan Cacace.<\/p>\n
Cacace announced that 22-year-old Xavier Fonseca Overton of Astoria, was charged with multiple felonies in connection with the reported attack, which authorities said was captured on video surveillance.<\/p>\n
According to the felony complaint, the incident happened during the overnight hours of April 7 and 8. Authorities said video surveillance footage captured the entire incident and showed the defendant in a stairwell at the White Plains City Center with the victim, who appeared to be unconscious.<\/p>\n
The felony complaint says the defendant lifted the victim\u2019s unconscious body and repositioned her before sexually assaulting her. It also alleges he lifted her body off the stairs, removed her clothes, turned her on her stomach and raped her. The complaint says the defendant then redressed the victim, waited several minutes, removed her clothes again and raped her again.<\/p>\n
Overton was arraigned on a felony complaint Thursday and charged with five counts of first-degree rape, a class B felony, and one count of first-degree sexual abuse, a class D felony.<\/p>\n
White Plains City Court Judge Mary Jo Blanchard set bail at $750,000 cash, $1 million bond or $2 million partially secured bond. Blanchard also issued a temporary order of protection for the victim. Overton is due back in court Monday.<\/p>\n
DA Cacace said,<\/p>\n
What the survivor in this case endured in that stairwell is a nightmare come to life. The defendant is accused of committing an unmerciful assault while she was at her most vulnerable, unable to consent or even recognize what was happening to her. I commend her for her bravery in coming forward to report this incident, and my office will seek full accountability for the defendant and justice for the survivor. She has the support of my entire office through every phase of this process, as do all survivors of sexual abuse in this county.<\/p>\n
Authorities say the defendant continued subjecting the victim to repeated sexual contact despite her inability to consent because she was unconscious.<\/p>\n
Cacace commended the White Plains Department of Public Safety for its investigatory work. The case is being prosecuted by Sex Crimes and Human Trafficking Bureau Chief Michelle Lopez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"White Plains, NY (WRGB) \u2014 A 22-year-old Queens man has been charged with raping and sexually abusing an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-193447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193447","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=193447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}