Family of 15-year-old rape victim in Crotona Park East pleads for justice

Delgado says that her daughter has been depressed and seeing a therapist since the rape.

Greg Thompson

Aug 19, 2025, 9:25 PM

Updated 2 days ago

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The family of a 15-year-old girl, who police say was raped on Aug. 10 near the corner of Prospect Avenue and East 170th Street in Crotona Park East says they need the neighborhood to hear what they are going through.
"I can't sleep at night. She's only 15. Please get justice for my daughter," said Diana Delgado, the victim's mother, as she pleaded through tears.
"She's the ninth child, she's the baby," said the victim's sister, Chenelle Jackson at a press conference Tuesday morning. "I just want justice for my baby sister, that's all."
The family says that the victim had gone to hang out with a friend, when the friend's boyfriend, who police think is between 17 and 19 years old, offered her a drink.
Family members say the victim felt threatened and had no choice but to drink it and started feeling off a little bit after.
"I knew the friend, I trust the friend, and the friend just dialed me out," said Delgado.
According to the family, the friend stood there while her boyfriend raped the victim, then put her in a car to go home.
"He's an evil guy. What he did to my daughter," Delgado said. "We got to get him off the streets so he don't do that to no other female out here."
Delgado says that her daughter has been depressed and seeing a therapist since the rape.
"She can't eat, it's hard for me to every day to wake up, and my daughter just wake up every day crying in the bed. I just keep telling her it's not her fault, but she got other friends calling her and saying it's her fault. it's not her fault, this is not my daughter's fault."
The family says it seems like this may have been a plan and that the victim was targeted.
"Her friend got to be questioned, too," said Delgado. "I just want justice for my daughter please. Please get the person that did this to my daughter."
Businesses in the area say the NYPD has been around talking to them and asking about security camera footage.
They have also put up a flyer on the corner advertising a reward of up to $3,500 for any information that leads to an arrest.