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A $10,000 reward remains unclaimed after citizens helped catch a migrant accused of raping a 13-year-old girl in a New York park

A $10,000 reward for information leading to the capture of the depraved rapist who attacked a 13-year-old girl in a Queens park has still not been claimed – even as residents banded together to help arrest the suspect, sources told The Post.

According to sources, none of the informants had come forward to claim the prize as of Thursday, nearly two days after police – with the help of Good Samaritans – arrested 25-year-old Christian migrant Geovanny Inga-Landi from Ecuador in the heinous rape in Kissena Park.

The arrest came after a five-day manhunt based on a flood of tips from the local Queens community, from surveillance video from neighbors and store owners to a 911 call from a woman – Angela Sauretti – who spotted Inga-Landi outside a corner store, police and witnesses said.

A good Samaritan, Jeffrey Flores, told the Post he waited all day outside a delicatessen on 108th Street near the park because he knew the suspect passed by there frequently – and then handcuffed Inga-Landi after a crowd beat him.

Angela Sauretti called 911 when she noticed the rape suspect Christian Geovanny Inga-Landi. Stephen Yang

“We are New Yorkers and we stick together,” NYPD Chief of Criminal Investigation Joseph Kenny said on Fox News. “When something is wrong, we stick together and make things right.”

The reward was offered a day after the June 13 attack in which police said an “animal” drove the victim and a boy (both 13) at knifepoint into a remote wooded area in Kissena Park, tied them up and raped the girl.

Sources told The Post that $3,500 of the reward came from the Crime Stoppers Program and the remainder from the New York City Police Foundation.

Jeffrey Flores waited all day outside a corner store in the hope of spotting the suspected rapist in the Kissena Park attack. Stephen Yang
A day after the attack in Kissena Park, a reward of $10,000 was offered. Brigitte Stelzer
Police arrested Christian Geovanny Inga-Landi this week. Stephen Yang

If and when an informant claims the reward, a committee of the Police Foundation will review the claim and divide the prize accordingly, the sources said.

The reward, if paid, is $3,500 upon indictment and an additional $6,500 upon conviction.