A 12-year-old alleged victim told cops that Jelani Maraj raped and sodomized her back in April 2015 and he repeatedly continued up to November before he was put behind bars..
Jelani Maraj’s DNA test matches the semen found on her clothing.
A grand jury indicted Maraj on felony child rape charges, including predatory sexual assault against a child and 1st degree sexual conduct against a child. If convicted, Maraj faces up to life in prison on the top charge.
Prosecutors revealed that Jelani Maraj’s DNA matches semen found on his 12-year-old accuser’s clothes, and have offered him a deal of 15 years to life, BOSSIP has learned.
The Nassau County District Attorney’s Office said earlier this week that Maraj’s DNA profile was a more than billion to one match of the semen on his alleged victim’s pants.
“…A DNA profile, a partial profile matching the defendant or consistent with the defendant, your honor, to the point in the hundreds of billionths of chance of it being any other individual, was discovered in the…pants of the complainant in this case, and also tested positive indicating the presence of semen,” Anthony Pirri, the assistant district attorney told the judge at a hearing July 26 in Nassau County Supreme Court’s sex crimes division.
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