Now, he’s sorry about sex attack
A TEEN SUSPECTED of robbing and sexually assaulting a woman who had just left a Queens church service says he’s a Christian himself — and he’s disgusted by his own actions.
“I don’t deserve to pray,” Justin Williams, 17, said Saturday in a jailhouse interview at Rikers Island.
Williams, Brandon Walker, 20 and Julisses Ginel, 19, were arraigned Friday on charges of forcing the 50-year-old churchgoer to perform oral sex on two of them behind a parked garbage truck on Liberty Ave. in Jamaica.
Prosecutors say the suspects, who lived together in a group home for homeless youth and had a fake gun, first robbed the born-again Christian Tuesday night.
Then they carried out the heinous sexual attack even after the victim tried to talk them out of it by falsely claiming that she had HIV, prosecutors say.
Williams told the Daily News he had no idea at the time of the crime that the victim was heading home from evening services at the Celestial Church of Christ.
“I heard she was coming from church. That makes it worse,” said Williams, who was dressed in a gray jail jumpsuit.
Williams offered a glimpse into his troubled past and tortured psyche in an hourlong interview.
In a soft, steady voice, he made clear he regretted participating in the sex crime.
“It was messed up,” said Williams, who says he has suffered from depression for years and is taking anti-depressants.
Williams said he and the others had carried out three robberies in the days before targeting the defenseless churchgoer.
As they zeroed in on their victim, Williams insisted, there was no plan to escalate the confrontation beyond a holdup.
“I thought it was going to be what we usually do,” he added.
The teen, asked why he participated in the sexual attack, suggested the victim was to blame.
“He told her to take her clothes off and she did,” Williams said.
Williams said he had a moment of hesitation but went through with it anyway after one of the members of his crew threatened to off the woman.
“We’ll kill you if you don’t,” Williams recalled Walker telling the victim.
Williams said he had a tough childhood in Georgia where his mother abandoned the family when he was just 3. He moved to the Bronx in November but ended up on the streets after his older brother kicked him out “because of a female.”
Williams landed at the group home about four months ago and fell in with the robbery crew.
He said he agreed to take part — and to even carry the imitation gun they referred to as a “glizzy” — as a “come up” to prove himself to the other guys.
“The rest of (the guys in the group home) would smoke weed with us and listen to us, tell us we’re gangster,” Williams said.
The three suspects were arrested Thursday after a staffer at their group home overheard them talking about the vile crime and called police. The suspects were charged with criminal sex act, sexual abuse and robbery.
Cops are still hunting for a fourth suspect.
In a statement to detectives, Ginel said he fetched condoms for his pals and threatened to shoot the victim if she didn’t comply with their demands.
Williams also confessed to his role in the attack, prosecutors say.
Cops recovered two fake pistols from the suspects’ rooms in the Jamaica home, one of which investigators believe was used to threaten the woman.
Williams and Ginel were also charged in an armed robbery of three men on a Queens street the day after the sexual assault.
Before getting locked up, Williams said he harbored dreams of a career at NASA.
Now, he’s resigned himself to a life behind bars.
“I’m not getting out,” he said.