Spree vics shocked by susp’s low bond

A QUEENS robbery victim didn’t need a law degree to know his teen attacker belonged behind bars: The suspect’s knife and muttered death threat were good enough for him.

The 59-year-old target of a store holdup was astonished Thursday to learn that oft-arrested suspect Donovan Fenton, 17, was sprung from jail when a Queens judge imposed a mere $17,000 bail after an arrest on rape charges.

“The lawyer or police or whoever is responsible should put him away,” the survivor of last week’s armed robbery told the Daily News. “He’s a nuisance to society. He’s a seasoned criminal.

“You cannot let people like that out on bail . . . The next thing is he’ll murder someone.”

The victim of the May 5 robbery asked not to be identified for fear of retaliation.

Fenton was turned loose Tuesday, two days after Queens Criminal Court Judge Michael Katz rejected an appeal from prosecutors to hold him on $500,000 bail.

Fenton, already wanted on a bench warrant, was arrested in Saturday’s sexual assault on a woman working alone in her Richmond Hill, Queens, store. Cops say the teen held a knife to the woman’s throat while forcing her to perform oral sex. Then he raped and sodomized her, police said.

What the attacker didn’t know was that the 50-year-old woman was on the phone when he burst into the store, and her friend on the other end heard the victim’s screams.

The friend dialed 911, and cops were able to bust Fenton a few blocks away from the store. He was charged with predatory sexual assault.

Katz ordered the $17,000 bail at a Sunday arraignment, and Fenton posted enough to walk free on Tuesday.

The judge declined comment on his decision when approached by The News, saying it is improper to speak about any pending case.

Prosecutors are expected to present the case against Fenton to a grand jury on Friday. A different judge could then increase the bail amount. The rape victim told The News that getting Fenton locked up was important because the teen posed a threat to all residents of Queens. “He could kill someone and not think twice, because he has people behind him, his bail is nothing, and his parents are supporting him doing the wrong thing,” she said Thursday. “That’s why they need to put him behind bars,” she continued. “Next time he will kill someone. He could kill someone.”

The suspect’s one-man crime wave dates to Nov. 21, when he punched a teenage girl in the face aboard an A train, police said. He was wanted for an April 30 Queens robbery and the knifepoint holdup five days later at Woodhaven Discounts.

The 59-year-old victim in the latter robbery believes he’s fortunate he wasn’t the someone to die at the suspect’s hand.

“He could’ve killed that woman,” the man said. “He could have killed me, if I resisted.”

Fenton wore two black bandanas tied together to cover his face and carried a knife when he went into the man’s store Friday morning, authorities said. He fled on foot with $500 cash.

“I want you to open the cash register or I’ll kill you,” the suspect told the store worker, putting the black-handled knife up against his back.

The robbery victim echoed the rape victim in expressing his fear of what the freed suspect might do next.

“Rape, robbery with a weapon, and things like that?” the victim asked. “They should put him away . . . because it’s escalating. It’s robbery, then rape, and next it will be murder. God knows who will be next.”