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The small-fry sicko accused of repeatedly raping a corpse on a Lower Manhattan subway was crafty enough to stop the act when the train hit stations to avoid detection, it surfaced in court Tuesday.
The twisted detail was made public as Felix Rojas, 44, was ordered held without bail at his arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court, where prosecutors recounted his alleged heinous sexual assault and robbery of the dead man on an R train near the Whitehall Street station April 8.
Rojas, who appears to be about 5 feet tall, had bloodshot eyes as he told Judge Kacie Lally, “Good afternoon.”
Prosecutors described during the hearing how Rojas allegedly searched and raped the body of Jorge Gonzalez, 37, who had lost consciousness on a bench inside the train and died.
The accused perv “took advantage” of Gonzalez after realizing he remained motionless when Rojas went to search his pockets a second time, prosecutors said.
Around 11:44 p.m. Rojas first sexually assaulted the victim, with his waist the same height as Gonzalez’s mouth as he was “repeatedly thrusting his hips back and forth,” it was revealed.
The act was caught on video surveillance, prosecutors said.
Rojas was careful enough to stop his despicable crimes between stations to avoid detection from incoming straphangers, prosecutors said.
He then allegedly moved Gonzalez’s body to the floor of the train car and removed his and the corpse’s pants to rape him, court papers reveal.
The rapist would zip up his pants, pull Gonzalez’s trousers back up and wait on the train bench during stops before repeating his sick behavior when the subway starting moving again and no one was around, documents say.
He allegedly continued his perverted antics till 12:18 p.m. — or for more than 30 minutes.
At 12:25 a.m., MTA police observed the motionless body on the floor of the train while Rojas was allegedly still in the subway car, prosecutors said.
Gonzalez was pronounced dead on arrival after FDNY medics responded to the scene.
He had boarded the subway around 8 p.m. that day before the suspect got on about three hours later, though it’s unclear where, sources previously told The Post.
Rojas turned himself in to cops Sunday accompanied by his son, law-enforcement sources have said. A relative recognized his surveillance picture on the news, prosecutors said.
After seeing a surveillance image of himself, Rojas told cops, “That is me” but insisted he “did not do that,” authorities said.
When Rojas turned himself in to the NYPD, he submitted a “passport from another country,” prosecutors said.
His immigration status was not immediately known.
The city Medical Examiner’s Office said Tuesday an autopsy was unable to determine how the Gonzalez died and that further study is required.
Sources have said police suspect Gonzalez succumbed to natural causes.
Gonzalez immigrated to the United States from Mexico about two decades ago in hopes of supporting his family back home, kin have said.
“He wasn’t just a random person, he was a father, he was a family man, he cared about his family in Mexico,” said his 38-year-old wife, Teresa, who had been separated from Gonzalez for about six years.
“He did many things,” she recalled. “He did construction, he worked in kitchens, he worked as a waiter, he was a busboy. You know, anything you really could do to try to get ahead.”
Rojas faces multiple charges for rape and grand larceny in the fourth degree, court papers show.
He will return to court May 2.
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