NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Friday, March 20, 2015, 2:30 AM
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The sicko rapist who asked a judge to hold off on sending him upstate so he could get married at Rikers Island bizarrely claimed Thursday that his victim is the one “terrorizing” him.
Kevin Mitchell whined that it’s his life that’s been ruined by the sexual assault.
“I would apologize for what she’s gone through, but I would’ve asked why she’s blown this out of proportion,” Mitchell, 34, told the Daily News when asked what he’d say to his victim if given the chance.
“Why is she still terrorizing me? I understand she’s been terrorized, but...” Mitchell said in an exclusive jailhouse interview.
The creep insisted that he’s not guilty, even though he copped a plea to first-degree rape in Manhattan Supreme Court for brutally attacking and raping a woman in her Murray Hill apartment in 2013.
“I was raised right. I have a good mom, a good dad,” the perverted jailbird said. “I'm not violent. If I was some twisted rapist, would I be sitting here talking to you?”
Mitchell said he was getting cold feet — despite a judge granting him an extra month at Rikers so he could tie the knot before getting shipped upstate to serve a 14-year-sentence.
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Kevin Mitchell, seen here in a Facebook photo, is complaining that the woman he raped is ruining his life.
“Now I’m thinking about not going through with it,” he said of his big house nuptials.
“She doesn’t need all this. I told her to go on with her life. She said she’s sticking by me.”
Mitchell’s fiancée, Tyneka Hudson, 33, filed for a marriage license before her locked-up lover was granted the extended stay at the city jail by Judge Maxwell Wiley Wednesday.
The pair planned to wed so that Mitchell would be able to see his kids, he told The News.
“We’ve been talking about this for a while, we planned to get married before all this,” he said. “I heard it can be tough with visitation upstate if we weren’t (married) and so I could see my kids. But I don’t want them seeing me like this. All because of a mistake.”
The “mistake,” Mitchell claims, was entering the victim’s apartment, which he said he thought belonged to someone who would sell him marijuana.
“Then we started drinking and talking,” he said of his victim. “I kissed her neck. But I didn’t rape her. It didn’t go any further. I couldn’t perform, you know, the liquor. I just left.”
His victim, who has been traumatized by the horrific ordeal, tells a different story. She has had to move, change her appearance, identity and job in an attempt to distance herself from the attack.
DAVID HANDSCHUH/NEW YORK DAILY NEWSJudge Maxwell Wiley has allowed rapist Kevin Mitchell to stay at a city jail long enough to get married before he's moved to a state prison.
“I have tried to rationalize what I could have done in my life to have deserved what happened to me,” the victim wrote in an emotional statement read during Mitchell’s sentencing. “The only conclusion that I have come up with is that some people in this world are truly terrible.”
Mitchell was convicted of following the 30-year-old woman into her apartment at around 5:30 a.m. on Sept. 29, 2013, looking to rob her, according to court documents.
He threatened to kill the woman while sipping booze and telling her he had a gun and a knife, sources said. Then he raped her.
The victim said in the statement: “I cannot understand why the man did this to me. Why he told me he would kill me if I didn’t do what he said.”
TODD MAISEL/NEW YORK DAILY NEWSKevin Mitchell asked a judge to extend his stay at Rikers Island so he could get married. His wish was granted.
Mitchell admitted to the crime last month. He claims he only copped to the crime because he thought it would lessen his sentence.
“I plead guilty because I was told to,” Mitchell said. “I thought I’d get a better deal. Now I’m gonna be locked up for years.”
