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NYC migrants allegedly raped woman at knifepoint in Coney Island: police sources

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The horrific attack took place outside a hotel housing asylum seekers at Surf Avenue and 16th Street around 9 p.m. Sunday, according to police.

A Nicaraguan migrant identified by sources as David Davon-Bonilla, 24, allegedly grabbed the 46-year-old woman and threw her to the ground before raping her while holding a knife to her throat.

The second migrant, identified as Mexican migrant Leovando Moreno, 37, is accused of striking the woman’s 34-year-old boyfriend with an object when he tried to stop the vicious assault, the sources said.

Davon-Bonilla, who previously lived at a La Quinta Hotel on Third Avenue converted into a migrant shelter, was charged with first-degree rape, second-degree assault, first-degree sexual abuse, menacing and criminal possession of a weapon, the sources said.

Moreno was charged with second-degree assault and criminal possession of a weapon.

The sources said the victim taken to Coney Island Hospital, where she was listed in stable condition.

Her boyfriend refused medical attention at the scene, they said.

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