NYC man charged with raping 15-year-old he met online: DA

A 24-year-old Bronx creep allegedly lured a 15-year-old girl he met online to his apartment and repeatedly raped her, prosecutors said — less than two years after being charged with a hauntingly similar attack.

William Credle, who met the victim on Instagram, even sent a Lyft car to pick up the victim in New Jersey and drop her off at his apartment in Belmont, where he allegedly beat and repeatedly raped her, prosecutors charged.

“Upon her arrival, the defendant brought the complainant to his apartment, took her into his bedroom, and put away his black firearm, pushed her forward into the bed, removed both his and her underwear and penetrated her … while she cried, ‘No’ and ‘Stop,’” Bronx prosecutor Nicole Beachboard said in court.

“He then had the [victim] smoke marijuana and drink from a Snapple bottle containing a liquid tasting of orange soda with a strange aftertaste,” Beachboard said.

“The [victim] describes feeling woozy, dizzy, tired and nauseous after drinking this substance.”

She said Credle allegedly molested the teen several times throughout the night after hiding her tablet — her only means of communication — with the girl repeatedly pleading, “I want to go home.”

Prosecutors said it wasn’t the first time the monster allegedly pulled off a sick attack on a minor. Credle pleaded guilty in April last year to sexual misconduct and sex abuse in a hauntingly similar attack in 2023.

“The defendant, then 21 years old, sent an Uber to a 14-year-old girl, who was transported by Uber to his apartment and he forced her to engage in anal and vaginal sex,” Beachboard said Thursday.

“The complainant alleged that he had drugs and a gun in his apartment.”

The alleged serial rapist was then stunningly released on the condition that he seek mental health and rehabilitative treatment.

Credle, who has a history of arrests for violent assault, had also previously skipped out on court appearances four times.

According to law enforcement sources, he was busted on April 26, 2022, for allegedly threatening his 36-year-old mother with a knife, and was arrested a year earlier on charges that he tried to strangle his 13-year-old brother in the family’s Bronx apartment.

On Sept. 21, 2021, he was charged with assault for allegedly punching his mom, who was 35 at the time, in the head, the sources said.

On Thursday, Judge Harold Bahr ordered Credle held on $50,000 bail — despite a request from the DA’s office that he be locked up on $200,000 bail — pending a return court date on Nov. 18.

Meanwhile, Crede’s lawyer, Abigail Bazin, argued that he was not a flight risk — just mentally ill.

“Mr. Credle does not pose a risk of flight to avoid prosecution,” Bazin told the judge. “I am aware of the failures to appear on his record and the warrants before your honor, and the reason he has missed court in the past is not because he’s fleeing prosecution but because he’s exceedingly mentally ill.”