Suspect accused of subway sex attack on male straphanger has courtroom rant

The accused rapist who sexually violated a 27-year-old man on a Manhattan subway car flew into a deranged, expletive-filled tirade in court on Friday, as a newly unveiled criminal complaint detailed the victim’s account of the disturbing attack.

“How long, how long?” defendant Mohammad Azeem, 36, shouted as officers led him out of a Manhattan Criminal Court room. “S–k my d–k. F–k you,” he added.

Azeem, who was arrested in Midtown Thursday, was ordered held without bail on charges including rape and forcible touching by Judge Kacie Lally during his arraignment Friday.

Boarding a northbound No. 1 train at the South Ferry Terminal Station around 4:11 a.m. on Apr. 26, the victim told investigators that Azeem had been lying on a bench on the train when he got up, grabbed the victim’s head and shoved his penis into his mouth, the criminal complaint says.

As the victim struggled against his attacker, desperately trying to shove him away, Azeem told the man to “bite it” before kissing him on the mouth and attempting to shove his tongue down his throat, court documents show.

At one point the victim managed to break away from Azeem and fled into another car, but his attacker pursued him, stuck his hands down his pants and attempted to stick a finger into the victim’s anus, prosecutors say.

Both the victim and Azeem exited the train at the Christopher St. station, where the violated straphanger was finally able to flee his attacker, prosecutors said.

The arrest comes in the wake of a shocking attempted rape and grand larceny on a Manhattan subway last month, when a MTA train conductor found the corpse of Jorge Gonzalez, 37, facedown on the floor of an idling R train at the Whitehall St. subway station in lower Manhattan.

Gonzalez had only been dead for about 30 minutes on April 8 before Felix Rojas, 44, approached the body and sexually attacked him, police charged.

This story will be updated.

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