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Rocco Parascandola

South Sudan diplomat accused of rape in NYC but released because he has full immunity, police sources say

NEW YORK — A South Sudan government official dodged a potential rape charge because he has full diplomatic immunity, the New York Daily News has learned.

The alleged victim reported to the NYPD at 11 p.m. Sunday that a man opened her building’s front door and followed her into her Upper Manhattan apartment about noon that day and raped her twice, police sources said.

She had been out walking her neighbor’s dog when a man said he wanted to come to her apartment.

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