A DuPage County judge has denied pre-trial release for a Hanover Park man accused of beating, raping and holding his girlfriend against her will for a month.
The State’s Attorney, Robert Berlin, says 32-year-old Jose Rojas-Alcocer of the 6200 block of Kit Carson Drive, suspected his girlfriend was seeing other men.
It is alleged that he had her confined to a bedroom in their home for four weeks and that he beat her with a wrench, cut her with a large knife, repeatedly raped her, burned her with cigarettes and choked her, using video surveillance to keep an eye on her.
It is also alleged that he forced her to drown their cat in a bathtub, telling her he’d kill her if she didn’t do it, according to Berlin.
She managed to escape and call 911 while he was away.
Charges against Rojas-Alcocer include aggravated criminal sexual assault, aggravated kidnapping and aggravated domestic battery.
Those are felonies.
“The psychological, emotional and physical pain Jose Rojas-Alcocer allegedly inflicted upon his girlfriend is inconceivable,” Berlin said in a statement. “It is alleged that for more than a month, Rojas-Alcocer systematically and repeatedly sexually assaulted the survivor in this case and held her captive in a bedroom, which he had under twenty-four-hour surveillance. This psychological abuse, coupled with the torturous, repeated physical assaults allegedly administered by the defendant are among the worst I’ve seen in my thirty-eight years as a prosecutor.”
