NY ex-con ‘enters a woman’s apartment and rapes her after giving her the choice of being sexually assaulted, being killed or being forced to have sex with her adult son’
‘Despite three arrests while on parole, ex-con was free to commit horrific rape in Queens’ – police
Joshua Henderson, a parolee, entered ‘a woman’s NY apartment and raped her after giving her the choice of being sexually assaulted, being killed or being forced to have sex with her adult son’
Joshua Henderson, 33, was arrested Wednesday and faces charges including rape and robbery
He is accused of breaking into a woman’s New York City home and raping her, giving the victim a choice of being raped, killed or committing incest with her adult son
Henderson reportedly, sprayed the woman with soapy water to eliminate his DNA, but she was but she picked him out of a photo lineup
The brazen ex-con was on parole at the time and wearing an electronic ankle monitor
He is said to have had a lengthy criminal record and recently been arrested on a number of suspected burglary charges
Ex-con from New York, Joshua Henderson, [photo], was arrested Wednesday and charged with rape, robbery and other charges after a woman claimed he assaulted her in her home and threatened her with forced incest, death or rape
A man is accused of raping a woman in New York City after breaking into her home and then giving her the choice of being raped, killed or having sex with her adult son, Monday night in Queens, New York.
The Queens district attorney’s office said Joshua Henderson, 33, raped and robbed the victim in her home on September 16 at about 6pm.
The parolee who had been arrested three times on burglary and other charges after his parole in July 2018 after serving nine years of a maximum 12-year sentence for burglary.
He wore an electronic monitoring ankle bracelet during the brutal attack Monday — and the bracelet’s tracking device put him at the scene of the rape, prosecutors said.
Wearing a yellow vest while posing as a construction worker to get into the victim’s building Police said, Henderson allegedly knocked on the woman’s door and engaged her in conversation when she answered. She was able to cut the talk short and shut the door on him.
A few minutes later, Henderson allegedly gained entrance to the woman’s home via an unlocked fire escape window and managed to convince her that he had a gun.
That was when Henderson supposedly told the woman that she had three choices: He could rape her, he could kill her or she could have sex with her 25-year-old son, who was home at the time of the incident. The woman also has a teenage, special needs son, but he was not home at the time.
Henderson then allegedly used wire and an extension cord to tie up the woman’s son in another room, before proceeding to rape the homeowner.
Henderson was arrested at his bail bondsmen’s shop where he was checking in on Wednesday and taken to the 12th precinct. He was out on parole and wearing an ankle monitor at the time of the alleged assault
In an effort to eliminate any DNA evidence, he was said to have sprayed the woman with soapy water after allegedly violating her.
On his way out of the home, Henderson allegedly stole jewelry, money and other valuables.
Henderson was arrested on September 18 while he was checking in at IC Bail Bonds, in Brooklyn, New York, where he had previously had his bail secured, PIX 11 reports.
Prosecutors said Thursday that Henderson was charged with rape, robbery and other charges. He was said to have been pictured in surveillance video footage and that the woman picked him out of a photo array and lineup.
He was held without bail following his arraignment Thursday night.
Somehow Henderson reportedly, has managed to fall through the cracks of our criminal justice system.
“This is not an isolated incident,” said NYPD Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea. “We see this far too often. It’s troubling for the safety of all New Yorkers.
His criminal history is said to date back 17 years, to when he was 16 years old.
Markers of his criminal past, include having to plead guilty to a string of burglaries in 2009, which resulted in his being sentenced to 12 years in prison. Paroled in 2018, after serving nine years, Henderson is under parole supervision until 2023.
However, in the one year he’s been out on parole, Henderson was arrested on five suspected burglaries and released on bail each time, all without having had his parole violated supposedly because an an administrative law judge prevented the revoking of his parole, police said.
The ex-co who is on 5-year probation was said to have entered the woman’s home via an unlocked fire escape window, still wearing his ankle monitor. He then allegedly convinced her he had a gun, tied up her adult son and raped her
Joshua Henderson is seen sitting inside police cruiser after his arrest in a police car Wednesday night in Queens, NY
Henderson was arrested at IC Bail Bonds, [photo], is bail bondsmen’s shop where he was checking in on Wednesday
And, while out on bail, he was also arrested on grand larceny charges for allegedly using credit cards taken during a previous burglary – which he was given bail for and, once again, did not have his parole violated.
“That individual gets arrested another time in Brooklyn after that… and this woman is scarred for life,” Shea said.
His wife, Joanna Henderson, 37, insists that her husband ‘didn’t do anything’ and that he has three children.
‘He’s a loving, caring man. He’d give you his last,’ she said.
‘The DNA is going to prove he didn’t do this. I’m telling you the DNA is going to prove he didn’t do anything,’ she claims.
Henderson was said to have been on parole at the time of the alleged rape and wearing an ankle monitor, which put him at the scene of the assault.
Police reportedly are investigating whether that Henderson is a possible suspect in several open rape and unsolved burglary cases.
In the latest incident the victim was home in Ozone Park with her son, when police say Henderson — posing as a construction worker — tries to get into her apartment. When that didn’t work, he apparently used a fire escape to get in through a window.
While inside, Henderson allegedly tied up the victim and her son before violating her Monday night. By Wednesday, police arrested the 33-year-old at IC Bail Bonds, who secured his bail from before.
“We don’t want career criminals that have a propensity for violence that over and over have been given chances and hurt New Yorkers being released before detectives have done the paperwork,” said Shea. “Let’s have those hard conversations.”
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