Migrant arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl in a New York park

An Ecuadorian migrant was arrested Tuesday for allegedly sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl in a secluded part of a huge park in Queens, sources said.

The migrant, who sources say entered the country in 2021, was arrested after allegedly threatening the girl and a 13-year-old boy with a “machete-style” knife before committing his sickening act in broad daylight at Kissena Park on Thursday afternoon.

The arrest came after New York police released photos and footage of the young man they were looking for on Monday evening. Police also offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest.

Other residents of the same homeless shelter in Queens recognized him from the wanted posters and called the police.

The suspect approached the two teens and forced them to go to a secluded area of ​​Flushing Meadows Park, then tied their wrists with shoelaces before molesting the girl, Chief of NYPD Investigators Joseph Kenny previously said.

The monster then took the two teenagers’ cell phones and told them to stay there for twenty minutes after he fled, police reported.

After the attack, the traumatized children ran to the nearby school, where they alerted staff, who called 911.

The brazen attack in broad daylight sparked a massive manhunt for the pervert and led to a heavy police presence in the park for days while nearby residents waited nervously.

“Everyone has been tense since the news came out because we all have small children playing here and it happened during the day,” father Alankar Ngar told The Post over the weekend.

The park is usually full of children and students from surrounding schools, such as the two victims.

The New York Police Department had assigned more than 60 investigators to the manhunt; it was an “all-hands operation.”

“I want (the community) to be confident that we will spare no expense. We will utilize all investigative resources and again ask the community for help so that we can close the case of these young children and this family,” NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey said Friday at a press conference on the crime.

Charges are still pending against the suspect.