Migrant accused of sexually assaulting 13-year-old girl in NYC park was ordered removed by an immigration judge two years ago
The Ecuadorian migrant arrested Tuesday in the sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl in a Queens park had been ordered to leave the US back in 2022, The Post has learned.
An immigration judge in New York City ordered Christian Geovanny Inga-Landi, 25, to leave the country on Feb. 2, 2022, according to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sources.
Inga-Landi — who is set to be charged with rape for the horrific June 13 assault in Kissena Park — likely applied for some form of relief or appealed the removal ruling to remain in the US, the sources said.
He crossed the besieged US-Mexico border on June 25, 2021, with his son into Eagle Pass, Texas, where he was captured, processed and released by Border Patrol agents, according to the sources.
Inga-Landi told officials he was going to live in an apartment in Flushing, New York.
He and his then-3-year-old son were released to a local nonprofit organization with a document providing a future court date known as a Notice to Appear document.
The family was deemed “inadmissible” by border agents because they lacked proper documentation to be in the US, but were released with the notice to appear in immigration court for “humanitarian” reasons.
Most migrants who cross the border illegally are deemed inadmissible, but are still released, sources said.
“People are getting released with NTAs because Border Patrol cannot hold detainees longer than 72 hours,” a source explained.
Police arrested Inga-Landi early Tuesday— five days after he allegedly held the teen girl and a 13-year-old boy at knifepoint with a “machete-style” blade in a broad-daylight attack inside the park.
Inga-Landi allegedly approached the two teens, forcing them into a secluded part of the park, authorities said.
From there, he tied their wrists with shoelaces before allegedly sexually assaulted the girl.
He then took away both teens’ phones, telling them to stay put for 20 minutes after he fled the scene, cops said.
The teens later ran to a nearby school, where staffers called 911.
A massive manhunt was launched to track down the monster.
“Everybody is tense since the news because we all have small children that are playing here, and it happened in the day,” father Alankar Ngar told The Post over the weekend.
