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House Cleaner Used Spare Key to Enter Rape Victim's Bushwick Home: Official

By Gwynne Hogan | August 25, 2016 1:56pm
 The suspect also robbed the woman before fleeing her Bushwick home, police said.
The suspect also robbed the woman before fleeing her Bushwick home, police said.
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DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — A house cleaner used a spare key to sneak back into a Bushwick home he'd cleaned the week before, tied up a woman as she slept, blindfolded her and raped her at gunpoint, law enforcement officials said Thursday.

Romaric Guiebre, 20, was arraigned in Brooklyn Criminal Court on sex abuse, burglary and robbery charges on Wednesday night. Special Victims investigators cuffed the man on Tuesday evening.

Following his arrest and arraignment, more details emerged about July 25 rape, that took place in an apartment near the intersection of Dekalb and Wilson Avenues.

The sleeping 29-year-old victim awoke to the sound of a key opening her front door at around 1:30 a.m. and soon the attacker grabbed her, a law enforcement official said.

Guiebre, who lives near Broadway Junction, used twine to tie her up and blindfold her with a bed sheet before raping her, a law enforcement source said.

The terrified woman tried to fend off her attacker and in the scuffle, she bit the man's nose, a law enforcement source said.

"Do you want me to rape you or kill you?" Guiebre said, training a gun at her, according to police. 

After the attack, Guiebre stole the woman's bank card and took out $400 dollars from an ATM, a law enforcement official said.

Prosecutors have not released the name of the cleaning service where Guiebre worked.

A law enforcement source said the man cleaned the victim's apartment the week before, though it wasn't clear if that was his only visit to the apartment before the attack.

Guiebre has no arrest history in New York City and no state prison records, according to police and state records.

His attorney, Debbie Silberman at Brooklyn Defender Services, who didn't immediately return a request for further comment, denies the charges against her client, the Daily News reported.

A judge ordered him held on $100,000 bail. He's due back in court on Aug. 29.