New York child molester admits filming sick machete attack on 13-year-old girl

New details have emerged in the case of the man accused of brutally sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl in a New York park. Prosecutors said he admitted to being a drug addict and filming the horrific attack.

Christian Inga appeared in court for the first time on Wednesday. He faces a litany of charges, including rape and kidnapping, for the June 13 attack. In the incident, he ambushed two teenagers after school in Kissena Park in Queens, drove them into the woods at knifepoint and held them down before sexually assaulting the girl.

Inga was arrested in Corona on Tuesday after an intensive search by the entire city. He was identified by people from his community who took the law into their own hands, arresting the 25-year-old and tying his legs together while they anxiously waited for the police.

“I told everyone he was the rapist. I hit him. I kicked him. I’m not going to lie,” Jeffrey Flores told NBC New York on Tuesday.

Flores had recognized Inga from the NYPD’s wanted posters and recruited some friends to stake out a bodega on the corner of 108th and Waldon Streets, where he knew Inga frequented. The group waited for hours until Inga showed up, and they confronted him, immediately notifying 911, saying, “Come and get him.”

“He started screaming ‘Help, help’ in Spanish. I just thought ‘Yes, that’s what the little girl said,'” Flores recalls. “He tried desperately to escape, running for his life, but in vain.”

Flores reported that the suspect tried to hide under a vehicle until police arrived and arrested him. After a brief hospital stay for injuries sustained during his arrest by locals, Inga appeared in court on Wednesday.

According to Flores, Inga did not deny the allegations of sexual assault, a statement supported by a bodega employee who was present at the time. Investigators say the boy and girl were in Kissena Park around 3 p.m., shortly after school let out, when a man with curly hair and braces approached them and demanded that they follow him into the woods.

When they resisted, he allegedly pulled out a “large machete-like knife” and dragged them to a secluded location, where he tied their hands with shoelaces and then sexually abused the 13-year-old girl.

The children told authorities that the attacker ordered them to stay there for 20 minutes before fleeing with their cellphones. They then returned to the school and reported the incident, which triggered an emergency call.

The victims received medical treatment at a hospital. A shoelace was found at the crime scene, presumably the one used to tie up the children. During the trial, prosecutors announced that Inga had confessed to struggling with drug addiction.

During an interrogation by police, he also reportedly stated that he met the boy and girl near the forest, where he tied up and gagged them before attacking the girl.

He told police he filmed the attack, but when asked about that detail, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz declined further comment, saying the incident was “under investigation.”

DA Katz echoed police comments from the previous day and praised the victims for their role in assisting authorities in their search for him following the horrific incident that left the local community in fear and shock.

“This attack on two children in broad daylight in a city park strikes at the core of our society,” Katz noted. Senior law enforcement sources have disclosed that Inga is an Ecuadorian citizen who entered New York City in 2021 with his then-three-year-old son after crossing the border at Eagle Pass, Texas.

Inga, a father of two, faces charges including rape, robbery, sexual assault, kidnapping and endangering the welfare of a child. Prosecutors argued that his immigration status posed a significant flight risk, prompting the judge to order his detention without bail. Inga has also requested additional medical care for facial injuries.

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His next court date is scheduled for July. Inga could be sentenced to 25 years to life in prison if found guilty. According to police records, Inga was not previously arrested in New York City, but previously in Texas.

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