Queens Man Gets 12.5 Years For Sexually Abusing 3 Girls On Fort Hamilton Army Base

A Queens man was sentenced to 12.5 year in jail and 20 years of supervised release in a federal court Monday for forcing three minor girls into sexual activity on Fort Hamilton Army Base, the United States Attorney’s office has announced.

Fausto Bonifaz, 40,  who pled guilty in March, abused the girls in 2009 when they were 12 and 13 years old, according the U.S. Attorney. Over the course of the next year, he sexually assaulted one of the victims on a weekly basis at her home at the Fort Hamilton Army base, which he admitted at the time of his guilty plea and at sentencing.

A CBS report has the details:

Bonifaz was a civilian who had been admitted to the base because he worked with the mother of one of the victims and had access to her house, prosecutors said.

His alleged actions were not uncovered until one of the girls reported the abuse to a counselor years later, prosecutors said.

Before his arrest, Bonifaz admitted to FBI agents that he had molested one of the victims and signed a written statement detailing the alleged abuse, prosecutors said.

At the sentencing, the government presented evidence that Bonifaz also abused two other minor victims, again at the Fort Hamilton Army base. He will be required to register as a sex offender.

In announcing the sentence, Robert L. Capers, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, expressed his grateful appreciation to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the agency that lead the government’s investigation.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to protect children by combating the sexual exploitation and abuse of minors.