Kristina Caban – New York photography student Kristina Caban was sent to prison for kidnapping her ex-boyfriend, Samir Sara, and branding a capital R into his lower back after claiming he raped her.

Photo of Krstina caban sentence to 5 years in prison for branding an ex-boyfriend

Kristina Caban, 23, had no comment as state Supreme Court Justice Michael Obus sentenced her to 5 years in prison for what he called “a crime that was not remotely justifiable.”

Caban, her new boyfriend Robert Testagrossa, and a third suspect, Joel Leonhard, who is still being sought, agreed to brand the victim after Caban told them Samir Sara raped her in 2004.

Samir Sara was branded with a capitral R for rapist by Kristina Caban

It was later discovered that Caban wanted revenge because Samir Sara had ignored her after a one-night stand, two years before, and hadn’t raped her at all.

“I’m tired of people who just want to stand in my way and push me down,” Kristina Caban, then 21, had written on her Facebook.com page in October of 2006. “To all the liars out there: you better step back ’cause I’m not going to back down anymore. I will hurt you.”

Police said Caban’s boyfriend, 25-year-old Robert Testagrossa, held Sara at gunpoint as he entered a hotel room after being lured there by Caban. Testagrossa, then allegedly displayed a badge and screamed at Sara, “I’m a Long Island police officer! Get on the ground!”

Together with Joel Leonhard, Testagrossa then zapped him with a Taser, bound him and branded him with a capital “R”.

The defendants also had wire brands for five other letters for the word “RAPIST,” but fled before using them when the victim screamed.

Krsitina Caban was angry and lied to her new boyfriend that an old boyfriend raped her

After being arrested three days later, Kristina Caban inadvertently tipped cops to Testagrossa’s identity by calling him from the police station house, telling detectives the call was to a “boyfriend”.

When cops checked a record of the call, they saw it was to Long Island and recalled what Sara had told him what one of his attackers had said – that he was a cop from Long Island.

They traced the number to Testagrossa, whose dad is a top Queens prosecutor and whose lawyer mom works for the Nassau County district attorney.

Testagrossa was sentenced to five years in prison earlier this year, while Caban’s sentencing was delayed to allow her to finish school. Joel Leonhard was never caught and remains at large.

And that’s the latest news on the “ex-boyfriend branding” sentencing of Kristina Caban.

Tags: ex-boyfriend branding, joel leonhard, kristina caban, prison sentence, robert testagrossa, samir sara

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