Ecuadorian migrant accused of raping 13-year-old girl in New York said in sickening confession that he recorded the attack: prosecutor

The Ecuadorian migrant accused of raping a 13-year-old girl he bound and gagged in a Queens park told police during a taped confession that he recorded the attack, prosecutors alleged Wednesday.

The shocking admission by 25-year-old Christian Geovanny Inga-Landi interrupted the otherwise top-secret court hearing in which he was charged with rape, kidnapping and a range of other offences in connection with the shocking June 13 attack in Kissena Park.

“At first I was nervous, but then I calmed down and recorded it,” Inga-Landi admitted in the video, prosecutors said in Queens Criminal Court, eliciting sighs from the audience.

Inga-Landi, who had visible scratches on his face, frowned and kept his head down throughout the arraignment, even as a judge ordered him remanded in custody without bail until his next court date on July 1.

The shocking videotaped testimony, a transcript of which was read in court by Assistant District Attorney Kasey Esposito, revealed new details about the broad daylight attack in which the girl and a boy, both 13, were threatened with a machete-style knife.

Inga-Landi, who claimed to have a drug problem, told police he accidentally came across the two teenagers who were having “sexual relations,” Esposito read.

He told authorities that he pulled out a knife he found in the park and threatened the teenagers with it.

Inga-Landi is said to have said in the video that the migrant tied the teenagers together with a shoelace, stuffed a headscarf into the girl’s mouth and cut open her shorts and underwear.

“After that I went to buy drugs,” he said, according to prosecutors.

The attack sparked a five-day manhunt that ended Tuesday with a dramatic, videotaped arrest by neighborhood Good Samaritans who said they recognized Inga-Landi as the rapist they were looking for and surrounded and handcuffed him.

“When we realized it was him, everyone freaked out,” said Angela Sauretti, who called 911 while her brother was beating the suspect.