A New York City college student died after being drugged and raped in her dorm, prosecutors say – The Citizens' Voice

A New York City college student died after being drugged and raped in her dorm, prosecutors say  The Citizens’ Voice

The indictment against 19-year-old Moises Freire was unsealed Thursday in Manhattan federal court. NEW YORK (AP) — A man raped a student at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology after giving her fentanyl that left her unconscious and ultimately killed her, federal prosecutors said Thursday. The student’s friend also took the drug and nearly died. Moises Freire, 19, of the Bronx, was charged with participating in a fentanyl distribution conspiracy and distributing a deadly drug with intent to commit rape. Brian Peralta Cabrera, 18, of Queens, was also charged in the drug conspiracy. According to prosecutors, Freire, who was not a student at FIT, brought fentanyl to the students’ dorm room March 18 and falsely claimed that the substance, which he’d previously described as “straight poison,” was pure cocaine.

At his urging, the women took the drug and almost immediately lost consciousness, prosecutors said. The woman Freire is accused of raping lapsed into a coma and died March 21. Freire and Peralta Cabrera were first arrested in March and pleaded not guilty to an initial set of charges that did not include the rape allegation. They remain in federal custody and have yet to be arraigned on the new indictment. A third defendant, Harry Rosales Pino, pleaded guilty in September to a charge of conspiracy to distribute narcotics resulting in