21-Year-Old Pleads Guilty To UES Bedroom Break-In Rape

Cops at the crime scene last August

The 21-year-old man who was arrested for breaking into an Upper East Side apartment and raping a 27-year-old woman has pleaded guilty to rape. Jason Quinones initially claimed that the sex had been consensual, but he confessed today as part of a plea deal. Quinones will be sentenced to 20 years in prison.

The incident took place on the early morning of August 13th; Quinones had broken into the 27-year-old victims first floor East 90th Street apartment. The victim woke up in the middle of the attack, and ran screaming through the hallway, while Quinones escaped through the window. But police found his DNA at the crime scene, and collared him days later. Police also connected him with a July 2011 attack on the Upper East Side in which he'd sexually assaulted another woman in her home—he also pleaded guilty to that attack, but received no additional time for it.

Quinones, a father of a three-year-old son, was on parole for 2009 Manhattan drug sale conviction when he was arrested for the rape. At the time of the attack, his mother had told the Post, "My son is innocent. My son is not a rapist...This is a big misunderstanding."