Man gets 20 years for sex assault and drugging of 2 girls

A Brooklyn man has been sentenced to 20 years behind bars for drugging two teen girls and sexually assaulting them in his apartment, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Christopher Chabrier approached the girls, ages 14 and 15, in a park in Carroll Gardens on Aug. 30, 2020, and gave them drugs he said were MDMA, Xanax, cocaine and marijuana, according to prosecutors.

Later, the 40-year-old man smoked weed with both his targets in his car and gave them $20 each, they added.

The next day, Chabrier picked up the teens and brought them back to his apartment on Jackson Place in Park Slope, where he gave them other drugs he labeled MDMA, cocaine and marijuana.

When the drugs caused the girls to become so dizzy that one of them was unable to stand, Chabrier assaulted them before paying one of the victims $200 and the other $100, prosecutors said.

Afterward, one of the teens told her father what happened, and he took her to an area hospital, where a sexual assault kit was used. That victim suffered cuts and bruises in the attack.

Cops arrested Chabrier about two weeks after the assaults and executed a search warrant at his apartment, where they found loaded guns and ammunition, knives, Tasers and large amounts of drugs including marijuana, cocaine and LSD, prosecutors said. They also recovered surveillance footage that captured the assaults.

“With today’s sentence, this defendant, who preyed on two young girls, offering them drugs and subjecting them to sexual assault, has now been held accountable. Brooklyn is safer with this defendant behind bars,” Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said in a statement.

Since his arrest, Chabrier had been awaiting trial at a Rikers Island jail, where he claims he was the victim of “repeated and vicious” assaults due to rampant gang activity allowed by correction officers, according to an October lawsuit.

The sex offender is suing for at least $10 million in damages.