23-year-old woman tells how she put an illegal immigrant who had “sexually abused a 13-year-old girl” in a headlock after recognizing his face and his gruesome reaction when she called him a “rapist”

The young woman who discovered a wanted child rape suspect admitted that she grabbed him by the neck and wrestled him to the ground before police arrived to arrest him.

Sixty New York City detectives were searching for illegal immigrant Christian Geovanny Inga-Landi after he was identified as the prime suspect in the rape of a 13-year-old girl with a machete outside her middle school on Thursday.

However, he was not arrested until Tuesday after 23-year-old Angela Sauretti recognized him from a police wanted poster on Instagram and showed him to a friend.

“He tried to run away, so I put him in a headlock,” she told The Daily Beast.

“He got something his mother should have done to him,” she added. “That’s how I put it.”

The teenager had been playing football with a 13-year-old school friend in a park in Queen’s when Inga approached her at around 3.30 p.m., police said.

He threatened them with a “large machete-like knife” before driving them both to a secluded area and tying their wrists together with a shoelace.

He then raped the girl, stole her cell phones and ran away.

The attack horrified the city, but the trail went cold until the early hours of Tuesday morning, when Sauretti spotted the hooded figure entering a grocery store less than a mile to the west.

“I pointed at him,” Sauretti said. “I was like, ‘Yo, that’s him?’ He said, ‘Yeah, that’s him.’ That confirmed it. And everything went downhill from there.”

On Tuesday, videos of his arrest went viral, showing Inga-Landi crouched under a car and surrounded by angry residents before being tied to a post as police rushed to the scene.

A woman believed to be Sauretti was filmed shouting: “I gave him a good beating” before explaining on Tuesday how determined she was to make the alleged rapist understand that his demise had been at the hands of a woman.

“As a woman, I had to set the right tone and remind him: ‘It wasn’t a man who did this to you. It was a woman,'” explained the aspiring radiologist.

“You did this to a woman, and a woman fought back and did this to you.”

“So he thought, ‘Maybe I won’t mess with the next woman.’ Because you never know. There are nice women and there are those who really defend themselves and give it their all.

“He said, ‘Let me explain!’ I said, ‘There is nothing to explain. You are a rapist, “You raped a little girl,” he said, “I don’t care.”

“That’s why we touched him. I don’t regret it at all.”

Meanwhile, other people had joined in the attempt to detain him, including 67-year-old Isabel Caizado, who kicked him and then took off one of her shoes to hit him with it.

The man took off his hoodie and T-shirt while attempting to escape, revealing a tattoo on his chest that Sauretti recognized from the NYPD call.

“That made us fight even harder,” Sauretti said.

Inga-Landi crossed the southern border at Eagle Pass, Texas, in 2021, and Daniel Ramos, who helped arrest him, said he overheard him an hour earlier saying he planned to board a plane to his native Ecuador later that morning.

Police arrested him and took him from the 112th Precinct station to court on Tuesday morning, where he faces multiple charges of rape, kidnapping and sexual abuse.

Sauretti, the daughter of a school crossing guard, may be eligible for the $10,000 reward offered for the capture of Inga-Landi, but says she wasn’t thinking about it when she detained the powerfully built suspect.

“I would have done it even if it wasn’t a reward, because at the end of the day I feel like it’s the right thing to do,” she said.

“I have structure. I have boundaries. I know where I stand, what I like, what I don’t like, what I want to do, what I don’t want to do.”

“No one can peer pressure me. No one can tell me what to do.”