By Forum Staff
A Corona man has been convicted of the violent February 2018 rape of his girlfriend, Acting Queens District Attorney John Ryan announced Thursday.
Following a two-week trial, Olger Macas, 31, was found guilty of first-and third-degree rape, second-degree sexual abuse, and second-degree criminal contempt. Sentencing has been set for Jan. 9. Macas faces up to 25 years in prison.
According to the charges, between approximately 4:30 a.m. and 6 a.m. on Feb. 11, 2018, while inside Macas’s 108th Street residence, Macas, who was angry over the victim dancing with a male friend at a concert earlier that evening, grabbed her and pinned her down and refused to allow her to leave the apartment. While attempting to flee, he grabbed her again, removed her clothing, bit her on the leg and then, after a struggle, raped her.
“I’d rather see you dead than with someone else,” Macas said to the victim.
According to the charges, while Macas was asleep, the victim was able to locate her cell phone and call 911. Unable to find her clothing, the victim wrapped herself in a towel and escaped from the apartment to wait outside for the police.
An order of protection was issued to Macas; yet two weeks after receiving it he violated the order when he called the woman begging her to forget what happened and urging her to get back together with him.
Ryan said that Macas “brutally beat and raped his girlfriend, who he professed to care deeply for. He raged at her that if he couldn’t have her, no one would. A jury weighed the evidence presented at trial and found the defendant guilty of this heinous attack. He is now awaiting sentencing and faces a lengthy prison term for his actions.”
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