Woman allegedly raped by NYC migrant in Coney Island breaks silence: ‘It was attempted murder’

The homeless woman allegedly raped at knifepoint by a migrant with a sex assault history in Brooklyn told The Post Tuesday she felt the brute was actually trying to kill her.

“It wasn’t rape, it was attempted murder,” the 46-year-old woman, whom The Post is not identifying, said from Coney Island.

“He didn’t try to rape me, he tried to kill me,” she said. “I kept telling him God was watching him.”

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She added: “I hope he gets a long time. I’m afraid he’s going to kill somebody.”

Daniel Davon-Bonilla, 24, a Nicaraguan migrant, was charged with the brutal Sunday assault under the Riegelmann Boardwalk.

The victim and her boyfriend had been living in an area under the boardwalk behind Maimonides Park stadium for about two weeks, part of a garbage-strewn encampment shared by homeless people, including migrants, they said.

Her boyfriend, Ray Ramsammy, 34, said he saw Davon-Bonilla and his alleged accomplice, 37-year-old Mexican national Leovando Moreno, drinking Modelo beers there the night before, and even the morning of the attack.

He went to get coffee and came back to the makeshift camp at around 8:45 a.m.  to find his girlfriend being brutalized, Ramsammy said.

“When I came up he was clearly choking her and having sex with her and holding her down with a knife on her face and she was screaming loudly,”  Ramsammy told The Post on Tuesday. 

When he tried to intervene, Moreno allegedly slammed him in the back with a pipe.

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“I tried to pull the guy off her and he tried to stab me,” Ramsammy recalled. “I grabbed the pipe with one hand and the other one was behind me, hit me with a brick. Hit me in the back.

“I ran out over there and I asked people to call the police, ‘Call the police!'” he said.

“She was hurt a lot. I was hurt a little. I’m a man, I got feelings. But she was really hurt,” Ramsammy added of his girlfriend of two weeks, with whom he had been living in an encampment on Coney Island.

“She’s messed up right now. When it started getting dark out last night, she was getting paranoid. She sees Hispanic men today and she thinks it’s going to happen again. She’s really upset.”

The victim added that she “fought, fought, fought, fought, fought, fought and I couldn’t fight no more.

“I was afraid he was going to kill me,” she reiterated. 

“It happens to women every day and we never get justice and we end up dead.”

At the time of the attack, Davon-Bonilla had been out of jail for less than two months after he copped a plea deal in a rape case from April 2023 where he assaulted a woman at a Park Slope hotel-turned-migrant shelter, according to court records. 

Brooklyn prosecutors cut a deal that allowed him to plead guilty to assault in the second degree in exchange for getting credit for time served behind bars and “court-managed programming,” a rep for the DA’s office said.

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He was released June 24 — despite federal immigration authorities having a detainer on him, sources have said.

Davon-Bonilla was arraigned on rape, sexual assault, menacing and weapons possession in Brooklyn Criminal Court late Monday and ordered held without bail at Rikers Island until his next hearing Friday.

Moreno was arraigned on assault and weapons charges Monday night and ordered held on $20,000 cash bail or a $40,000 bond. He’s also next due in court Friday. 

An NYPD detective arrived at the scene to reinterview the victim as The Post spoke to her Tuesday, and he also worked on the earlier sex assault case against Davon-Bonilla last year. 

Vagrants are drawn to the cramped space under the boardwalk for the convenience of two public bathrooms nearby, and they get into it via a hole cut in a fence meant to keep trespassers out.

At least three people dozed there on Tuesday afternoon, amid scattered blankets and clothing and discarded bottles of Modelo and Corona beer or cheap wine or empty cans of White Claw hard seltzer. 

“People like this need to get off the street,” Ramsammy said of his girlfriend’s attacker.

“You need to get him out of here.”