The depraved deviant who allegedly raped a corpse on a Manhattan subway train for 30 minutes is an illegal immigrant who crossed into the US from Mexico at least five times before finally getting locked up over the sick act, The Post has exclusively learned.
Felix Rojas, 44, unlawfully crossed the US-Mexico border “on several occasions” in the late 1990s before being caught by Border Patrol agents and voluntarily turning back, an ICE spokesperson revealed.
But Rojas apparently crossed the border at least one more time and remained undetected by immigration authorities until NYPD cops arrested him Sunday night in connection to the shocking defilement of 37-year-old family man Jorge Gonzalez, who suddenly died on an R train nearly three weeks before, the spokesperson said.
A stomach-turning court hearing this week revealed what Rojas allegedly did to Gonzalez when he discovered the dead or dying family man slumped on a train bench April 8.
Surveillance footage showed Rojas first rifle through Gonzalez’s pockets to allegedly rob him, then return to sexually assault the man’s corpse, prosecutors said.
The alleged necrophiliac repeatedly zipped up his pants and pulled Gonzalez’s trousers up as the train stopped to avoid being caught in the perverted act, according to prosecutors.
The debased rape unfolded over the course of more than 30 minutes, prosecutors said.
Gonzalez’s death is believed to be from natural causes, sources have said.
Rojas, who faces multiple charges of rape and grand larceny, was ordered held without bail.
He had submitted a “passport from another country” when he turned himself in to the NYPD, prosecutors said, but officials didn’t publicly reveal his immigration status until now.
An ICE spokesperson — who referred to Rojas as Felix Jeronimo-Rojas — said US Border Patrol ran into him three times in 1998 and once in 1999.
Rojas voluntarily returned to Mexico each time, the spokesperson said.
When Rojas last illegally entered the US is unknown, according to the spokesperson.
ICE officers in New York City lodged immigration detainers against Jeronimo’s release with Manhattan Central Booking on Monday, as well as Wednesday with the city’s Department of Corrections at Rikers Island after he was ordered remanded pending trial in the rape case, the spokesperson said.