Rapist gets 66 years, demands ‘polyester-graph’
The admitted rapist of an 11-year-old girl stunned a Philadelphia courtroom this afternoon when he retracted his guilty plea, called himself the Anti-Christ, and yelled "You'll know I'm telling the truth if you give me a polyester-graph."
The admitted rapist of an 11-year-old girl stunned a Philadelphia courtroom this afternoon when he retracted his guilty plea, called himself the Anti-Christ, and yelled "You'll know I'm telling the truth if you give me a polyester-graph."
Jose Carrasquillo, 27, pleaded guilty in August to sexually assaulting a girl in Kensington when he was in a drug-fueled rage.
Judge Rami Djerassi denied Carrasquillo's request to withdraw his guilty plea. Instead, Djerassi sentenced him to 30 to 66 years in prison.
When Carrasquillo was arrested in June 2009, he told detectives he had been drinking and using PCP and cocaine in the hours before his attack on the girl.
He said he had also been seething after a rejection by a female friend who had chosen to go home with a black man instead of Carrasquillo. That rage led to the attack on his 11-year-old victim, who is black, he said.
"It was the drugs," Carrasquillo told police. "My mind was telling me to do it. . . . I've been locked up in placement with black people my whole life. They treated me bad and they think they are the supreme race. I went berserk."
Carrasquillo, of Kensington, previously pleaded guilty to groping a 16-year-old girl on the street an hour before the rape.
Shortly before his arrest on the rape charge, Carrasquillo was beaten by a vigilante mob in Kensington. No one has been arrested in that beating.
He has been subject to additional beatings in prison by fellow inmates.
Carrasquillo could face life in prison, due to the age of his victim and because she was seriously injured. The girl required surgery and was hospitalized for two days. She has since physically recovered.