Prosecutor: Man filmed himself sexually abusing a 14-year-old boy on a roof in New York

THE BRONX, N.Y. (PIX11) — A man who sexually assaulted two people, including a 14-year-old boy, during a knifepoint robbery in the Bronx two years ago will spend more than a decade behind bars, authorities said.

Jaden Stephens, 21, was sentenced Tuesday to 12 years to life in prison for each incident after pleading guilty to two counts of sexual assault in the May 2022 attacks, according to the Bronx District Attorney’s Office.

Stephens threatened a 19-year-old man with a knife before stealing his cellphone and performing a sex act on him on Eastchester Road on May 1, 2022, prosecutors said. Stephens then struck the victim when he refused to perform a sex act on him and then ran away.

Two weeks later, Stephens followed a 14-year-old boy into the Edenwald Houses and forced him to climb onto the roof, where he robbed and sexually assaulted him, prosecutors said. The defendant filmed himself engaging in sexual acts with the teen and threatened to post the video online if he told police, authorities said.

“The defendant forced himself on the victims at knifepoint and even filmed one of the attacks. We are grateful that the victims came forward and bravely spoke out against their attacker so that we could get them justice,” Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark said in a statement.