23-Year-Old Heroine Captures Alleged Child Predator, Boldly Calls Him ‘Rapist’

The young woman who recognized a wanted child rape suspect revealed that she grabbed him by the neck and wrestled him to the ground before the police arrived to arrest him.

Sixty New York detectives had been searching for illegal immigrant Christian Geovanny Inga-Landi, the prime suspect in the machete-point rape of a 13-year-old girl outside her junior high school on Thursday.

However, it was only on Tuesday that he was apprehended, thanks to 23-year-old Angela Sauretti. She identified him from a police wanted poster she had seen on Instagram and pointed him out to a friend.

“He tried to run, so I put him in a headlock.” “He got something his mother should have done to him,” she added. “I’ll put it that way.”

However, when she called him a rapist, Sauretti said he showed no remorse and tried to justify his actions.

“He said, ‘Let me explain!'” she revealed. “I responded, ‘There’s nothing to explain, you’re a rapist, you raped a little girl.’ He replied, ‘I don’t care.'”

The teenage girl was playing soccer with a 13-year-old school friend in a Queens park around 3:30 pm when Inga approached them, police said.

He threatened them with a “large machete-style knife,” forced them into a secluded area, and tied their wrists together with a shoelace.

He then raped the girl, stole their cellphones, and fled the scene.

The attack horrified the city, and the trail went cold until early Tuesday morning when Sauretti spotted a hooded figure entering a grocery store less than a mile away.

“I pointed him out,” Sauretti said. “I was like, ‘Yo, that’s him.’ He confirmed, ‘Yes, that’s him.’ That’s what confirmed it. And everything just spiraled from there.”

Footage of his capture went viral on Tuesday, showing Inga-Landi cowering under a car, surrounded by furious residents before being tied to a post as police raced to the scene.

A woman, believed to be Sauretti, was recorded shouting, ‘I beat the s*** out of him,’ before explaining on Tuesday how she was determined to impress upon the suspected rapist that his downfall came at the hands of a woman.

“As a woman, I had to really set the tone and remind him, ‘It wasn’t a man that did this to you. It was a woman,'” the aspiring radiologist explained. “You did that to a woman, and a woman got back and did this to you.”

“So it made him think, ‘Maybe I won’t mess with the next woman.’ Because you never know. There are nice ones, and there are those who will really defend themselves and go all out.

“That’s why we put our hands and feet on him. I don’t regret it at all.”

By this time, more people had joined in restraining him, including 67-year-old Isabel Caizado, who kicked him and then hit him with one of her shoes.

As the man struggled to escape, his hoodie and T-shirt came off, revealing a chest tattoo that Sauretti recognized from the NYPD alert.

“That’s what made us go even harder,” Sauretti said.

Inga-Landi had crossed the southern border at Eagle Pass, Texas, in 2021. Daniel Ramos, who helped capture him, said he overheard Inga-Landi an hour earlier saying he planned to board a plane for his native Ecuador later that morning.

Police arrested him and took him from the 112 Precinct station house to court on Tuesday morning, where he faces multiple charges of rape, kidnapping, and sexual abuse.

Sauretti, the daughter of a school crossing guard, might be eligible for the $10,000 reward for Inga-Landi’s capture, but she says it wasn’t on her mind as she restrained the heavily built suspect.

“I would have done it even if there wasn’t a reward because, at the end of the day, I feel that’s the right thing to do,” she said.

“I have structure. I have boundaries. I know where I stand, what I like, what I don’t like, what I want to do, and what I don’t want to do.

“Nobody can pressure me. Nobody can tell me what to do.”