Conn. rape suspect held on $2.5M bond
March 31, 2009
HAMDEN, Conn.—A 26-year-old suspect in the beating and rape of a co-worker in Hamden has been ordered held on $2.5 million bond.

Federal immigration officials say that Jose Angel Moreno-Hernandez may be in this country illegally. He was in Meriden Superior Court Monday.

Moreno-Hernandez is accused of attacking the 25-year-old woman after he asked her to give him a ride home last Friday.

Hamden police say the woman was severely beaten and sexually assaulted several times.

Police say Moreno-Hernandez punched the woman her in the face, beat her and sexually assaulted her. Police say he then drove her car to the Hamden section of East Rock Park, where he raped her again.

After being beaten once again, police say the victim played dead and he fled in her car.

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