Clinton Hill Man Convicted Of Kidnapping, Rape, And Torture Of Ex-Girlfriend

File under “stuff life sentences were made for.”

A Clinton HIll man has been convicted of all 17 charges levied against him in the 2013 “kidnapping, raping, and torturing his former girlfriend for three straight days, with their two-year-old daughter present at the apartment for most of that time.”

“This defendant is a monster,” said Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson in a statement. “He mercilessly tortured a defenseless woman and would have probably killed her if he wasn’t stopped. We intend to ask for the maximum sentence so he will spend the rest of his life in a prison cell where he belongs.”

Alex Anselmo, 31, of 71 Grand Avenue, faces 50 years to life in prison when sentenced on October 1. The full list of charges include:

“. . . first-degree kidnapping, first-degree rape, first-degree burglary, second-degree assault, criminal possession of a weapon, aggravated criminal contempt and related counts.”

According to trial testimony, the ordeal started when the 31-year-old victim broke up with Anselmo, who “became increasingly obsessive” and, upon learning via Facebook that she was planning to move to Florida with her new boyfriend, began contacting her “in violation of an order of protection” issued after he had assaulted her in 2012.

Then, on April 1, 2013, he forced his way into her Bed-Stuy apartment:

He punched her and handcuffed her to the bed, where she remained tied for most of the following three days. The defendant raped and sodomized her each day, used a knife to cut her feet, severing a tendon, and beat her with a dumbbell and an extension cord. He threatened to shoot her with a gun, stuffed a sock in her mouth and used clippers to cut off all of her hair. The victim suffered 50 wounds to her body and feet.

The 2-year-old girl was forced to stay in the living room for most of the ordeal. She was released by the defendant hours before police arrived.

A neighbor called 911 on April 3, 2013 after getting concerned, listening through the door and hearing the cocking of a gun. When police officers from the Emergency Services Unit broke down the door, they found the victim tied to the bed in a formal dress she was forced to wear earlier that day, according to testimony. A revolver was recovered in the apartment.

. . . evidence presented at trial showed that the defendant took a cell phone photo of the woman’s stab wound during the crime, which was deleted but later recovered. It also showed that two days prior to the incident he conducted web searches on how many Xanax pills are needed to cause a death and on how to sterilize a woman.