Queens Woman Raped By Parolee Wearing Ankle Monitor: DA

HOWARD BEACH, QUEENS — An ex-con was arrested this week for raping a Queens woman, after authorities had failed to get him locked up for parole violations, according to prosecutors and news reports.

Brooklyn resident Joshua Henderson faces rape and burglary charges for breaking into the woman's Howard Beach home on Sept. 16 and giving her a devastating choice — he could kill her, she could have sex with her son or she could have sex with him.

Henderson, posing as a construction worker, had knocked on the woman's door just after 5 p.m. and told her there was work being done on her roof, according to prosecutors.

Shortly after, he climbed through the woman's window, told her he had a gun, then tied up her son and gave her the ultimatum.

Henderson, 33, wore an ankle monitor that placed him at the scene of the attack, the New York Daily News reported.

Surveillance video shows a man in construction worker's get-up leaving the woman's apartment, prosecutors said.

Henderson had been arrested three times since he got out of prison on parole in July 2018, where he'd spent nine years for burglary, according to the Daily News.

The state corrections department had tried twice to send Henderson back, but "circumstances outside of the department's control kept this individual from returning to prison," a spokesperson told the Queens Chronicle.

An administrative judge had ruled against the agency, according to the Chronicle.