New York- A transvestite hooker sobbed in a Manhattan courtroom yesterday as he was found guilty of viciously slamming the 4-inch stiletto heel of his shoe into the head of a cabby who’d declined to give him a ride. www.adultfyi.com/read.aspx?ID=10610
Carlos Sanchez, 32, struck the cabby so hard during the predawn Christopher Street attack that the heel went 6 centimeters through skin, skull and brain, leaving the victim partially paralyzed.
Assistant District Attorney Martha Stolley had presented two eyewitnesses, including one who’d known Sanchez by sight.
The mean queen already has a string of prostitution, drug, theft and forgery convictions. He now faces five to 25 years in prison when he’s sentenced for first-degree assault next month.
The victim, Barun Ghosh, a 38-year-old father of twin sons from Brooklyn, still has a paralyzed right arm.
Since the accident, Ghosh, who holds a master’s degree in Bengali literature from his native India, has had to give up driving a cab and his more scholarly endeavors, which included working as a Sanskrit translator and a lecturer on Hindu scripture.
Sanchez had jumped into Ghosh’s off-duty cab at Christopher and Seventh Avenue in February. He flew into a rage when Ghosh told him his shift was over.