Alex Anselmo, 31, who faces life in jail when he is sentenced next month has been found guilty of repeatedly raping his
former partner during a three-day torture session - while her
two-year-old daughter was in the next room.
The jealous lover forced his way into the woman's home in Brooklyn, New
York, before punching her and handcuffing her to her bed, the court
heard.
He
raped and sodomized her up to four times a day for the next three days -
as well as beating her with a dumbbell and an extension cord and
threatening her with a gun.
Anselmo
- who is the father of two of the woman's children - also cut his
victim's feet, severing a tendon so she could not escape,
He shaved her head with clippers and stuffed a sock in her mouth so she could not scream.
On
Wednesday Anselmo was convicted at Brooklyn Supreme Court of 17
charges, including first-degree kidnapping, first-degree rape,
first-degree burglary and aggravated criminal contempt.
The
court was told that the former couple split up in the spring of 2012
but Anselmo, who is from Clinton Hill, became increasingly obsessive
about his ex.
He
subjected her to the horrific three-day ordeal in April 2013 after
discovering via Facebook that she was planning to move to Florida to be
with her new boyfriend.
According to the New York Daily News,
the woman testified at the trial, saying: 'I was very scared and did
not want him to do anything worse to me and my daughter ... I did what
he said.'
Anselmo's sentencing hearing will he heard next month - when he could be jailed for life.
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