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Ex-Cop On Trial For Sex Assault Says It's A Conspiracy
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John Del Signore
Published May 27, 2010
Modified May 27, 2010
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After being previously found guilty of telling a teenager that if she performed oral sex on him he'd destroy a summons for trespassing in Riverside Park, ex-cop Wilfredo Rosario is currently on trial on charges that he sexually assaulted two women after luring them with promises of applications for jobs and programs for their children. But during testimony yesterday, Rosario insisted that the women were lying and that he's the victim of a plot perpetrated by the NYPD and prosecutors.
Rosario claims he's been targeted ever since he joined a class-action lawsuit claiming racial discrimination against the department. According to the Times, he testified that his superiors retaliated by moving him to the graveyard shift and denying him promotion. "It wasn’t until I received any monies from this lawsuit, then all of a sudden, it’s alleged crimes and stuff going on," Rosario testified.
One of his alleged victims claims Rosario lured her to her car and allegedly pulled over at one point and told her he wanted to feel her heart, then began groping her breasts. After she pushed his hand away, she says Rosario showed her a Santeria necklace and told her it "gave him the power to feel people" and he could tell that she "had suffered a lot in this lifetime." Rosario then allegedly demanded that she show him her lower back tattoo, and forced her hand onto his junk.
But Rosario says she voluntarily showed him her tattoo, and "we were kind of, like, flirting with each other. She said that she likes police officers." In a phone conversation the woman recorded shortly afterward, Rosario said the phrase "take it out" and told her he'd done so "to show you that I feel good, that I feel comfortable." Testifying yesterday, Rosario explained that the recording was missing a portion of the conversation: "As far as taking it out, that was the religious beads, which she touched."
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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