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- Antwon Pitt raped a woman in her home Oct. 13, 2015, and took her cellphone.
- Police found Pitt by tracking the victim's cellphone.
- Pitt stole items from another woman during a home invasion a week earlier.
A man who raped a woman inside her southeast Washington, D.C., home last year was sentenced to 60 years in prison, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.
Antwon Pitt, 22, entered the victim's home through an unlocked door after 2 p.m. Oct. 13, 2015. He grabbed the victim, who was working from home, and slammed her to the floor, the prosecution said. He violently held his hand over mouth and nose and forced her down the hall to the bedroom where he raped her.
"Stop fighting or I'll kill you," the attacker told her, according to court documents. She stopped struggling for fear of her life, the prosecution said.
He then took her cellphone, demanded her passcode and left, the prosecution said.
The 6-foot-5, 200 pound Pitt beat the 5-foot-tall mother of two so brutally, she needed facial reconstruction surgery, the prosecution said. She also suffered bruises all over her body.
Police watched surveillance video showing a man walking through an alley by the victim's building after the rape, and they tracked the victim's cellphone to a gas station in Mitchellville, Maryland, where they found Pitt, who matched the description of the man in the surveillance video and had the victim's phone and checks made out to her husband, the prosecution said.
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Pitt also had a wallet and other items belonging to the victim of a home invasion Oct. 6, 2015. In that case he entered a sleeping woman's bedroom in a northeast Washington apartment, the prosecution said. She woke up and exchanged words with the unknown man in her room, and he took
items including her cellphone, a tote bag, her wallet, multiple identification cards, a debit card and a Metro card.
“Antwon Pitt terrorized two women in separate attacks over one week, invading their homes while one was sleeping and the other doing work,” U.S. Attorney Channing Phillips said. “Today’s sentence will protect our community from this dangerous predator for decades.”
A jury convicted Pitt in June of first-degree sexual abuse, kidnapping, first-degree burglary, robbery, threats and felony assault in the rape case. Pitt pleaded guilty in September to second-degree burglary in the other home invasion case.
Pitt had been arrested, charged with a felony and released until trial over prosecutors' objections just two weeks before the attack, News4 previously reported. He was found Sept. 30, 2015, in the second-floor men's room of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library with a GPS ankle monitor and synthetic marijuana, police said.
At the time, he was on probation for an armed robbery in July 2013, for which he took a plea deal, records show. He was given two years confinement and three years supervised release.
After Pitt was arrested at the library in September, he was charged with felony drug possession, released prior to a trial and ordered to not commit any crimes, records show.
Upon his release from prison, will be put on supervised release and required to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.
