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DNA database match breaks decades old rape cold case – links convicted fraudster to 1998 subway platform sex assault attack

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><header id&equals;"ra-headers">&NewLine;<h6 id&equals;"ra-headline"><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;1a0202&semi;"><strong>DNA database match piles rape conviction for man already convicted of fraud<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;1a0202&semi;"><strong>Convicted money launderer Johnny Jacob will spend up to another 20 years behind bars <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;1a0202&semi;"><strong>Jacob&comma; 45&comma; was convicted of first-degree rape after a jury trial Friday<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><strong><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;1a0202&semi;">DNA technology linked fraudster to the subway platform rape of a 19-year-old woman on<&sol;span> <&sol;strong><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;1a0202&semi;">March 2&comma; 1998<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-195512" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;06&sol;dna-photo&period;jpg" alt&equals;"dna photo&period;jpg" width&equals;"1328" height&equals;"882" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;header>&NewLine;<div id&equals;"ra-body-wrap">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"ra-module top h"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<article id&equals;"ra-body">A Brooklyn man already serving time in prison bagged an additional sentence which may be as long as 20 years in prison on Friday for raping a woman on a subway platform nineteen ago&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;After Johnny Jacob was convicted of federal money laundering charges in 2013&comma; his DNA was entered into the national database&comma; Combined DNA Index System&comma; and it connected him to the March 2&comma; 1998 rape of a 19-year-old woman&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Thankfully&comma; the DNA recovered that day was used to hold the defendant accountable for this horrific act and bring justice to his victim&comma; who bravely testified against him at trial&comma;” said Acting Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Jacob was convicted of first-degree rape after a jury trial and sentenced by Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Dineen Riviezzo to 10 to 20 years in prison&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The teen was on her way to her first day of work around 9&colon;30 a&period;m&period; when she exited the M train station at Ninth St&period; and Fourth Ave&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;She was approached by Jacob who ordered her to go back to the platform&comma; according to trial testimony&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Jacob&comma; then 26&comma; threatened to shoot her by placing what was believed to be a gun to her back and raped her&comma; prosecutors said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The convicted rapist also threatened her not to call the police or else he would kill her and fled the scene&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The victim was treated at Lutheran Hospital where a rape kit was administered&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;article>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;

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