NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Sunday, April 13, 2014, 9:40 AM
Joe Stepansky/New York Daily News The Jackson Heights apartment of Hernan Zapata, the public school custodian who was arrested and charged with rape on Saturday. A Brooklyn public school janitor has been arrested on rape charges, police said Sunday.
Cops cuffed Hernan Zapata, 51, at the middle school where he worked within the 88th Precinct, which encompasses the neighborhoods of Fort Greene and Clinton Hill, at 3:46 p.m. on Saturday, police said.
Authorities alleged Zapata raped a woman inside of an office at the school at some point during the day on Saturday.
The adult victim, who police said was not a student, the parent of a student or a faculty member, was meeting a third party at the school when the attack occurred, police said.
Zapata’s daughter, Michelle Zapata, 21, said her father — who is married and also has a 7-year-old son — would not commit the heinous act.
Joe Stepansky/New York Daily News Another shot of Zapata’s apartment. The school where he works in Brooklyn has not been identified. “This is the craziest thing that has happened to us. There’s no way he would do this. He’s not capable of something like this. He comes straight home after working, when he’s not working, he’s with us,” Michelle Zapata said at the family’s Jackson Heights apartment.
“(He worked there) close to 17, 18 years. Everyone knows him, go to the school, everyone will know him. They will all say good things,” Zapata said through sobs, declining to identify the school where her father works. “I don’t know why anyone would say that. Whoever said that is going to hell.”
Zapata was charged with rape, sex abuse, sexual misconduct, unlawful imprisonment and assault.
Cops were investigating and withheld the name of the school to protect the victim, authorities said.
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