New York Post

‘Drunken sex abuse’ rap vs. cop duo

- Larry Celona, Allie Griffin

Two off-duty NYPD cops were arrested Tuesday morning for allegedly sexually assaulting an extremely intoxicate­d woman while she was passed out in The Bronx last summer.

The officers, 40-year-old Julio Alcantara-Santiago and 32-year-old Christian Garcia, were slapped with a litany of sex abuse charges for the July 9 assault of the unidentifi­ed woman following a night out at a Grand Concourse bar.

The victim — unable to stand on her own and subsequent­ly passed out — has no memory of leaving the bar, Zona De Cuba.

Instead, her next memory was waking up to the two cops allegedly sexually assaulting her in a bed in a strange apartment she didn’t recognize, according to the criminal complaint.

Her slight stirring then apparently spooked her accused abusers.

“Let’s go, bro, she’s waking up,” Garcia allegedly told the other cop, the victim said.

Later that morning, the woman woke up at around 7:30 and went to a local hospital to get a rape kit.

Doctors swabbed dried spit on the woman and DNA tests later confirmed it matched both NYPD officers, according to the complaint.

Investigat­ors also obtained surveillan­ce footage from Zona De Cuba that shows the two cops, the victim and an unnamed female acquaintan­ce leaving the establishm­ent at 12:37 a.m.

The victim was between Alcantara-Santiago and Garcia, with each holding her up by her arms as she was unable to stand or walk on her own, the video shows, according to the complaint.

Further footage shows the four getting into a car and pulling up to the female acquaintan­ce’s apartment, where the two cops carry the victim inside.

Both cops were suspended without pay, the NYPD said.

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