The homeless man accused of beating and sexually assaulting a Queens mother told detectives he only wanted to rob the woman — but admitted he gets “angry” and “black[s] out sometimes.”
“I pushed her down the stairs. I wasn’t going to rape her,” Ronald Williams admitted to detectives in South Carolina on Tuesday. “I punch her in the face a few times. I get angry and black out sometimes.”
Wearing red pants and a t-shirt, Williams scowled as he stepped into the Queens Criminal courtroom around 1 p.m. Thursday with his hands cuffed behind his back to answer to charges of assault, sexual abuse and unlawful imprisonment.
Williams, 21, allegedly attacked the mother of two near 72nd Road and Kissena Boulevard on April 30 — just moments after she had dropped her child at school.
He dragged her to a nearby building’s outdoor stairwell, where he beat and sexually assaulted her, according to a Queens DA press release.
The building’s superintendent found the 52-year-old woman bleeding from her head, face and body, according to the criminal complaint.
She was not wearing pants, underwear or shoes when she was discovered.
“He left her bloody and beaten and barely conscious at the bottom of the cement stair well,” prosecutors said.
Williams beat the woman’s face so violently that she was unrecognizable.
The victim suffered a broken orbital bone and a broken vertebra in her neck and needed four staples in her head as a result of blunt force trauma. She also suffered vaginal injuries, the criminal complaint states.
She is still being treated at an area hospital.
After the crime, investigators found surveillance footage showing Williams walking behind the fully-clothed woman in various locations before the attack.
Only minutes later, Williams is seen in the video walking away from where the victim was found.
Nearly two weeks later, the wanted man was picked up at a motel in Columbia, S.C., where he was arrested for violating probation following a collar from the previous year.
In January 2017, Williams approached a 33-year-old woman in the Bronx, exposed himself and masturbated in front of her before punching her in the face and trying to snatch her purse. He got away empty-handed.
He was sentenced to three years probation after pleading guilty to misdemeanor assault.
Williams, who now faces up to 25 years in prison, “has a history of black-outs,” said defense attorney David Guy at the arraignment. He asked that the man be given medical and psychiatric attention.
Williams pleaded not guilty and was held without bail.