New Yorker saw accused migrant child rapist and put him in a headlock

A 23-year-old woman in Queens, New York, discovered the Ecuadorian immigrant accused of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl in a local park after seeing him on a New York Police Department wanted poster.

On Tuesday, Angela Sauretti recognized suspected child molester Christian Geovanny Inga-Landi in front of her and her unnamed friend in front of the 108th Street Grocery deli, just blocks from the park where the alleged assault took place.

“I was like, ‘Yo, that’s him?’ (The friend) said, ‘Yeah, that’s him.’ That confirmed it. And everything went downhill from there,” she reportedly said.

Sauretti said she grabbed him and put him in a headlock as he tried to escape her.

She said that when she tried to arrest him, she told him, “You did that to a woman, and a woman came back and did that to you.”

She added: “He said, ‘Let me explain!’ I said, ‘There’s nothing to explain. You’re a rapist.'”

Besides her, at least ten other people noticed him and beat him and held him with a belt. Another woman, Isabel Caizado, is said to have kicked him and hit him with a shoe.

“After that, I’m not going to lie, everyone just started beating him,” Jeffrey Flores, another Queens resident, reportedly said of the group that caught the suspect.

Sauretti called 911, and when police arrived, they were heard screaming on tape: “He’s the rapist! He doesn’t care about anything. … He’s right there! We’re going to kick his ass!”

“He kept saying ‘help, help, help’ and then I said – I told him to shut up. That’s what the girls were yelling when he – … one less guy on the streets, you know, messing up the world,” Flores said.

Inga-Landi tried to escape the crowd by hiding under a car, but the New York police pulled him out from under the car.

The 25-year-old suspect appeared in court on Wednesday to face multiple charges, including rape, sexual abuse, robbery, menacing, false imprisonment, kidnapping, endangering the welfare of a child and possession of a weapon. If convicted, he faces 25 years to life in prison.

Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz spoke after Inga-Landi’s arraignment and thanked the Queens community for its help in his capture.

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“I’m grateful that the community responded. We made the arrest within a day or two. I want to thank the NYPD. They got the word out and the picture out. They got a very detailed description of the tattoo,” Katz said.

She also thanked the brave 13-year-old children, saying: “It’s unbelievable what they went through, their identification, their memory of the tattoo, the braces, everything was just right, which is a remarkable memory for two 13-year-olds. And then the subsequent manhunt in this city. I want to thank the people who called and gave tips and made sure that we found Christian Inga in time.”