A Manhattan judge nearly doubled the bail on the career con charged with raping a drunken, woman in a West Village stairwell.
Clear sidewalk surveillance video of the attack has turned up supporting the case against accused sex fiend Ivan Ramos, prosecutors said in arguing successfully that bail be hiked to $500,000 from the original $300,000.
The 29-year-old victim had lost her cell phone and cash when Ramos, 22, of Brooklyn, stumbled on her, leading her to an ATM under the pretext of helping her take out cash, assistant district attorney Craig Ortner told Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Richard Carruthers.
She was too disoriented to remember her pin number, and asked Ramos to take her to a police precinct, the prosecutor said.
“Instead, the defendant took her to a stairwell on Perry St. and brutally raped her,” in a 15-minute, caught-on-video attack, he said.
Residents heard the woman’s screams, calling the cops. One witness saw Ramos pulling up his pants at the top of the stairwell, and followed him, pointing him out to cops, he said. Ramos still had the victim’s ATM card on him when busted.
“He’s a hard-working family man, devoted to his family,” defense lawyer Mel Reiss told reporters after the hearing, at which Ramos pleaded not guilty.
“We’re going to wait on the results of any DNA testing which I’m sure will vindicate him. My client adamantly denies any involvement in the crime. Our defense will be mistaken identity.”
Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance called Ramos “depraved” in a written media statement. “The defendant savagely preyed on a vulnerable victim while posing as someone who wanted to help her,” he said.
Ramos has been busted more than 20 times in the past 5 years on charges of robbery, assault, theft, burglary, false impersonation, weapons possession and grand larceny, sources have told The Post.