New York's No-Bail Laws Claim Another Victim **Warning Graphic**



She’s in a vegetative state and expected to die in days after a brutal assault and rape — and she’s another victim of the state’s demented bail “reforms”: Her alleged attacker was released twice without bail after arraignment on two prior assaults this year.

Frankie Harris, 38, was charged this week with rape, strangulation and attempted murder for the May 18 East Harlem attack, in which he allegedly put a 64-year-old woman in a chokehold for three minutes before pulling her to the ground and raping her.

Harris claimed it was consensual until cops showed him surveillance footage — then said he was trying to revive her after seeing a Puerto Rican man choke her.

Huh: A prior criminal complaint says Harris threatened to kill Puerto Ricans in February, punching a woman in the mouth in front of her two young children, then popping one man in the face and spitting on another yelling, “Puerto Rican f - - - - t.”

That earned him 16 charges, including third-degree assault as a hate crime, aggravated harassment, endangering the welfare of a child, menacing and resisting arrest. But the Brooklyn DA’s Office said none of them qualifies for bail under the reforms passed last year and supposedly “fixed” this year.

That was two weeks after Harris walked on charges of forcible touching and sex abuse when Justice Althea Drysdale ordered him into another supervised release program.

How many must die before the Legislature give judges the discretion to lock up dangerous perps?

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