Park Slope man receives 20-year sentence for assaulting teenage girls

March 15, 2024 Robert Abruzzese, Courthouse Editor

The Kings County Supreme Court, Criminal Term, where Hon. Heidi Cesare handed down a 20 year sentence to a Park Slope man who sexually assaulted two teenage girls in his apartment and filmed it.
Brooklyn Eagle photo by Rob Abruzzese

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A Park Slope man was sentenced to 20 years in prison for sexually assaulting two teenage girls after he drugged them and brought them back to his apartment.

Christopher Chabrier, 40, was sentenced by Kings County Supreme Court Justice Heidi Cesare on Wednesday to 20 years in prison following his conviction for the sexual assault of two teenage girls that he recorded on video.

“I remain committed to seeking justice for all victims of sexual violence and to protecting children and teens from predators who are intent on exploiting them,” District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said after the sentencing. “With today’s sentence, this defendant, who preyed on two young girls, offering them drugs and subjecting them to sexual assault, has now been held accountable. Brooklyn is safer with this defendant behind bars.”

The charges Chabrier was found guilty of included two counts of use of a child in a sexual performance as a sexually motivated felony, third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, third-degree rape, third-degree criminal sexual act, second-degree attempted rape and possession of a sexual performance by a child.

In addition to 20 years in prison, Chabrier will have an additional 20 years of post-release supervision and will have to register as a sex offender upon release from prison.

At trial, prosecutors were able to prove that on August 30, 2020, Chabrier approached the victims, ages 14 and 15, in Carroll Gardens, providing them with what he claimed was MDMA, Xanax, cocaine and marijuana. Later, the girls and another friend smoked weed in Chabrier’s car. He gave them all $20, and they left.

The next day, Chabrier returned and brought the girls back to his Jackson Place apartment, where he gave the girls what he said was MDMA, cocaine and marijuana. After taking the drugs, the girls became dizzy and began to crawl on the floor before Chabrier sexually assaulted the girls. He gave them $200 and $100 before they left.

Following the incident, one of the girls told her father, who then took her to the hospital, where she was treated for lacerations and bruising, and a rape kit was administered.

Chabrier’s arrest on Sept. 15, 2020, led to the seizure of loaded firearms, knives, tasers, ammunition, and a large quantity of drugs from his apartment, alongside the video evidence of the assaults.