Alleged train rapist is criminal illegal alien convicted of sex crime
Maria Wheeler
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The man arrested for the brutal public rape of a woman on a SEPTA train last week is an illegal alien with a criminal record that includes a sex offense.
“What this woman endured at the hands of this guy, what she’s been able to provide for us, it’s been unbelievable,” Timothy Bernhardt, superintendent of the Upper Darby Township Police Department, said.
Fiston Ngoy, charged with brutally attacking and raping a woman on a train in front of other passengers, was supposed to have been deported years ago.
Ngoy, a 35-year-old Congolese national, came to the U.S. in 2012 on a student visa, but that visa was terminated in 2015 due to his failure to maintain his student status, Tucker Carlson Tonight reported.
Records show that Ngoy has a rap sheet that includes “multiple arrests and two misdemeanor convictions, one for controlled substances and one for sexual abuse.”
Ngoy spent time in prison and then on probation following conviction.
In 2019, an immigration judge gave him a ‘withholding of removal’ and allowed him to stay in the United States because the Board of Immigration Appeals decided the sexual abuse was not bad enough to prevent him from remaining in the U.S.
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The homeless Ngoy now faces charges of rape, sexual assault, and aggravated indecent assault without consent.
Throughout the attack where multiple witnesses were present, no one intervened or called 911. Ngoy reportedly harassed the woman for at least 40 minutes before becoming violent, ripping her clothes off, and raping her. Though she attempted to fight him off throughout the attack, he later claimed it was consensual.
“I’m appalled by those who did nothing to help this woman,” Bernhardt said.
“The onus is really on us as a collective because we can’t always rely on the police. We have to rely on one another,” Criminologist Alexis Piquero said.
The Delaware County district attorney’s office may choose to press charges against the onlookers, as well as against Ngoy.
“I can tell you that people were holding their phone up in the direction of this woman being attacked,” SEPTA Police Chief Thomas J. Nestel III said.
“What we want is everyone to be angry and disgusted and to be resolute about making the system safer,” he continued.
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SEPTA does have emergency buttons installed in each train car.
“The assault was observed by a SEPTA employee, who called 911, enabling SEPTA officers to respond immediately and apprehend the suspect in the act,” SEPTA spokesman Andrew Busch said. “There were other people on the train who witnessed this horrific act, and it may have been stopped sooner if a rider called 911.”