NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — A Queens man has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for the 2017 sexual assaults of two woman and attempted sexual assault of a third, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said Monday.
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“This was a violent and disturbing series of attacks that targeted and traumatized three innocent women,” Gonzalez said. “With today’s sentencing this defendant has now been held accountable for his actions, and our communities are safer now that he has been taken off the street. I remain committed to seeking justice for all victims of sexual assault in Brooklyn.”
The South Ozone Park man, 31-year-old Keith Wiggins, initiated his first attack on October 10 at 6:45 a.m. on Fountain Avenue in East New York.
Wiggins approached the 29-year-old victim as she was walking to work, took out a silver gun and ordered her into a lot behind a van. There, he made her take off her clothes, raped her and forced her to perform a sex act with a gun pointed at her head. He then fled the scene in a Dodge Caravan.
Less than a half an hour later, around 7:13 a.m. on Lincoln Avenue, Wiggins went up to a 15-year-old girl as she was on her way to school. Again, he took out a silver gun and demanded she turn around or he’d shoot her. The teen was able to get away and Wiggins fled the scene in a Dodge Caravan.
A little over an hour later, Wiggins approached a 30-year-woman as she was walking to work in East New York. He took out his silver gun and ordered her inside of her home. Once inside of the hallways, Wiggins forced her to perform a sex act with a gun to her head before fleeing the scene in a Dodge Caravan.
Cops were able to track Wiggins down as he was trying to return the Dodge Caravan to a rental agency at John F. Kennedy Airport later that same morning.
Wiggins was convicted of four counts of predatory sexual assault, one count of first-degree burglary as a sexually motivated felony, one count of first-degree sexual abuse, one count of second-degree menacing, and one count of endangering the welfare of a child on March 23, 2022, after a jury trial.
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