Westchester County District Attorney Miriam E. Rocah announced on Wednesday, Dec. 4, that a Bronx man has been sentenced to 6½ years in State prison for physically attacking his girlfriend in a Pelham Manor Village parking lot in Westchester County in August 2023.

 

“Thanks to the victim’s quick instincts during the attack and her extraordinary courage in testifying against her abuser, this defendant has now been held accountable for his violent actions and will not be able to cause harm to this victim or anyone else,” Rocah said in response to the sentencing announcement.

 

Prosecutors said after a three-week trial, on May 21, a jury found the defendant, Christian Rosado, 27, of The Bronx, guilty of assault in the second degree, unlawful imprisonment in the first degree, and resisting arrest.

 

They said Rosado was also sentenced to 2 to 4 years on the unlawful imprisonment charge, which will run concurrently to his six-and-a-half-year sentence, and will be subject to 5 years of post-release supervision.

 

The court heard that at around 9.16 p.m. on Aug. 14, 2023, Rosado, while sitting in the passenger seat of the victim’s parked vehicle on Pelham Parkway in Pelham Manor (Westchester County), repeatedly bit the victim’s lip and cheek before choking her. The defendant then threatened the victim as he continued to bite her face.

 

As detailed during the trial, the victim revved the engine of her parked car during the attack, which alerted nearby Pelham Manor police officers. When approached by police, Rosado fled from the vehicle. Following a foot pursuit, additional officers were called to help apprehend and handcuff him, as he resisted arrest.

 

Prosecutors said Rosado was transported to the Village of Pelham Police Department headquarters and carried inside the building after he refused to allow officers to walk him in.

 

The case was heard before New York State Supreme Court Justice Larry Schwartz in Westchester County Court and prosecuted by the chief of the Domestic Violence Bureau, Joyce Miller, and Assistant District Attorney Arlene Ramezanzadeh, both of the Special Prosecutions Division, with assistance from the deputy division chief of appeals and special litigation, William Milaccio, and domestic violence aide Christina Viera.