Hanover Park man charged with sexual assault, beating and kidnapping of girlfriend

A judge Saturday ordered a Hanover Park man to be held in custody on charges of sexually assaulting, beating and kidnapping his girlfriend until his next court appearance on July 20.

Jose Rojas-Alcocer, 32, has been charged with three counts of aggravated criminal sexual assault and one count each of aggravated kidnapping, aggravated domestic battery and aggravated battery, all felonies.

In the late morning of June 14, Hanover Park police officers responded to a 911 call from a woman who said her boyfriend, Rojas-Alcocer, had physically and sexually abused her as well as threatened to kill her.

The officers found the woman covered in lacerations and bruises outside the residence she shared with Rojas-Alcocer. The subsequent investigation discovered that Rojas-Alcocer had taken away her cellphone and confined her to a bedroom apart from using the bathroom after becoming suspicious that she was seeing other men.

Prosecutors allege Rojas-Alcocer installed cameras in the bedroom to monitor the victim and that he physically and sexually abused her on multiple occasions from May 10 through June 14.

The abuse allegedly included cutting the victim with a large kitchen knife as Rojas-Alcocer told her he wanted to watch her bleed, hitting her body and head with a wrench, choking her and burning her with cigarettes, authorities said.

Rojas-Alcocer also is accused of forcing the victim to drown a cat in the bathtub under threat of being killed herself.

The woman was able to call 911 at a time when Rojas-Alcocer had gone to work. Rojas-Alcocer was arrested by U.S. Marshals on June 17 at a Motel 6 in East Syracuse, New York, authorities said.