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DA: Sicko who filmed himself raping kid in Prospect Park gets 108 years behind bars

DA: Sicko who filmed himself raping kid in Prospect Park gets 108 years behind bars
Brooklyn District Attorney

A sicko who convinced a 15-year-old boy and 12-year-old girl to have sex with each other in Prospect Park then filmed himself raping the girl will likely spend the rest of his life behind bars, prosecutors announced on Nov. 23.

Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Vincent Del Giudice sentenced 35-year-old Kensington man Natalio Canete-Perez to 108 years to life in prison after a jury found him guilty of predatory sexual assault earlier this month, according to the borough’s top legal eagle, who said Kings County kids will now be safer without this creep on the streets.

“This defendant is a sexual predator who targeted young children,” said Acting District Attorney Eric Gonzalez in a statement. “He is clearly a danger to society and has now been held accountable for his depraved criminal acts.”

The perv lured the 15-year-old boy to Prospect Park on June 11 in 2014 by posing as a 12-year-old girl on Facebook. Once there, he encouraged the teen boy to have sex with a real 12-year-old girl — a kid who lived in the same building as his family — before raping the girl himself while taping the encounter, a jury found.

He then raped the 12-year-old again on two more occasions, prosecutors said.

It wasn’t the only time Canete-Perez used social media to prowl for young victims, the district attorney said — he also convinced a 10-year-old girl to send him “lewd” photos of herself while posing as a teen on Facebook in May 2014.

The slimeball then threatened to post the images online if she didn’t send more, and the girl told a relative who called the police, according to the district attorney.

When police finally arrested Canete-Perez in September that year, they discovered the rapes in the park, according to trial testimony.

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