SICKO STRIKES 'AGAIN' ON UWS
Teen’s attacker held in new M’hattan rape
A pervy career criminal busted in a sex attack on a teen was eventually freed without bail — and raped a woman over the weekend in Manhattan, cops and sources said.
Jamel McIver, 30, was nabbed Sunday in the Upper West Side rape — after his own family turned him in, sources said.
The suspect — who has 15 prior arrests — was finally ordered held without bail at his arraignment Monday, when Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Jonathan Carfagno said McIver’s “abhorrent conduct is part of a pattern of physical and sexual violence.”
McIver’s latest crime involved raping a woman in a building stairwell at West End Avenue and West 65th Street Saturday, cops said.
McIver trailed behind his 21-yearold victim as she entered the building around 1:20 a.m. and followed her into an elevator, cops said.
He then forced her out of the lift and into a stairwell, where he raped her, police said.
According to a criminal complaint, McIver twice threatened the victim, telling her, “Do what I say or I am going to f--king kill you!” and, “Do not f--king say anything, or I will kill you!”
He allegedly then forced the woman to walk outside.
“Walk out with me, and do exactly what I say,” he allegedly warned. “If you call the police or I see myself on the news, I am going to kill you.”
McIver can be seen at one point taking off his jacket and tossing it over a fence in a video released by police. He fled on foot, they said.
The woman ran back to her building and told relatives of the attack. She was taken to a local hospital in stable condition.
McIver was tracked down around 4 p.m. Sunday thanks to a tip from a relative and charged with rape, sexually motivated burglary and criminal sex act, cops said.
His previous busts include a 2013 Delaware arrest for allegedly beating his 2-month-old son and a 2019 Bronx case in which he was accused of sneaking into a sleeping teenager’s bedroom and forcing her to touch his groin, according to authorities, records and law-enforcement sources.
In the 2019 sex case, McIver pulled his vehicle to the front of the 16-year-old girl’s building on Beck Street near Avenue St. John in Longwood and slipped into her apartment through a fire escape, authorities said. The pair didn’t know each other, sources said.
The young victim told police she woke up to find him standing over her bed.
“I want you to touch me,” the stranger told her, according to police sources at the time. “Don’t scream. I have a gun.”
McIver then grabbed her hand and placed it on his pants over his genitals, police said.
The terrified teen was able to free herself from his grasp, prompting the man to flee from the room through the same window.
He was arrested two days later, cops said.
Bronx prosecutors said McIver was initially ordered held on $250,000 bail in that case but then was released without bail in March 2020 because of state speedy-trial statutes. He only had an order of protection against him involving the teen.
McIver then pleaded guilty in August as part of a deal with Bronx prosecutors that required him to enroll in a two-year rehabilitation program at Odyssey House, an addiction treatment center in East Harlem.
The agreement mandated a fiveyear sentence if he did not complete the program. His hearing was scheduled for March 29.