Uber driver caught on camera raping woman after ‘saving’ her from earlier sexual assault
A man who raped a woman after “saving” her from another sexual assault has pleaded guilty to the brutal attack after it was caught on a live webcam.
Kerry Calvin Gasag was sentenced to 10 years after pleading guilty to sexually violating a 34-year-old woman at a tourist hotspot in Florida, the Miami Herald reports.
The victim had initially thought Gasag, an Uber driver, was rescuing her from a separate sexual attack in the early hours of September 10, 2021.
Once she was in his car, Gasag proceeded to ask the woman for sex, eventually prompting her to jump out of the vehicle in a “panic”.
Gasag followed the victim, before raping her at the famous Southernmost Point buoy in Key West.
But the entire incident was caught on the tourist hotspot’s live webcam, which at the time was being viewed by an emergency services dispatcher 2575kms away in Boston, who immediately contacted local police.
“I’m actually calling from Boston,” he said, according to a report by WCVB.
“But, bear with me, this is going to sound crazy. But, I’m at work and I have the, you know, the Southernmost Point cam?
“I could almost swear that I saw somebody get raped.”
Footage from the live webcam showed Gasag with the woman in a headlock, Local 10 stated.
The unidentified woman can be seen resisting the Uber driver in the video before he shoves her behind the iconic landmark and sexually assaults her.
Minutes later, the woman stumbles away from the buoy and runs. Gasag emerges immediately after and can be seen zipping up his pants.
Police later found the victim after several witnesses also reported seeing a “nude female, crying and screaming”.
Gasag returned to the scene of the crime later that night “and scooped up her clothes” in a bid to hide evidence.
But it took two years for police to arrest and charge him with sexual battery, false imprisonment and evidence tampering.
Assistant Monroe County State Attorney Joseph Mansfield said Gasag faced up to 25 years in prison if he had gone to trial, but instead received a 10 year sentence with five years probation for pleading guilty, according to the Miami Herald.
The woman’s first attacker is alleged to be Jorge Calderon Nunez, 30.
He is currently being held in Miami-Dade County jail on a bond of $225,000 and is set to go before court later this month with charges relating to the earlier assault.
