Warning: This story contains descriptions of sexual assault.

A Rikers officer accused of sexually assaulting at least two women while they were incarcerated at the women’s prison faces new charges, according to the Queens District Attorney’s Office. He allegedly posed as a television producer in charge of casting a show in order to lure another woman to his Springfield Gardens home and rape her.

After Anthony Martin Jr. was arraigned in Queens Criminal Supreme Court on Monday, prosecutors revealed new details about the alleged assault. They say he contacted the woman through social media and she went to his home expecting to meet other producers and potential cast members. When the woman arrived, however, Martin Jr. was alone, prosecutors said.

Martin Jr. was arrested days later after the woman told police he pulled down her pants, inserted his finger into her vagina, pushed her onto a bed and raped her while she repeatedly asked him to stop, a criminal complaint states. On July 25, a grand jury indicted Martin Jr. on charges of first- and third-degree rape, first-degree sexual abuse and second-degree false imprisonment. If convicted, he could spend up to 25 years behind bars.

Martin Jr. pleaded not guilty Monday and is free on bail set at $15,000 cash or $45,000 surety bond. The city’s corrections department suspended him without pay the day of his arrest, according to spokeswoman Annais Morales.

“I thank the brave survivor for coming forward,” Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said in a statement. “My office stands up for victims of sexual violence.”

In addition to the criminal charges, Martin Jr. also faces civil charges. He is one of at least 20 current or former Rikers employees whose names have appeared in more than one lawsuit filed under the Adult Survivors Act over the past two years. This state law provides a one-year window to bring sexual assault allegations after the statute of limitations has expired.

More than 700 women incarcerated at Rikers Island have sued the city, claiming they were assaulted while in custody and that authorities did not do enough to prevent or punish the rampant abuse.

Mayor Eric Adams promised in March a “thorough investigation” into the hundreds of allegations, but said the lawsuits would only be reviewed by the city’s legal department, which is responsible for defending the city against the allegations. The Bronx District Attorney’s Office also said it was reviewing the litigation to determine whether charges were warranted.

Martin Jr.’s attorney, Steven Gaitman, declined to comment after his client’s arraignment on Monday. When a reporter reached Martin Jr. by phone, he hung up. In June, Martin Jr. told Gothamist that the civil charges brought by former Rikers inmates “sound like a bunch of nonsense.”

But some of the details presented by prosecutors in the criminal case against Martin Jr. are similar to civil allegations made by at least two former inmates who identified him as the correctional officer who allegedly sexually harassed them while working at the Rose M. Singer Center on Rikers Island. The two women are suing the city of New York for a total of $45 million.

One woman said Martin Jr. put his fingers in her vagina in 2019 while they were in a storage room at the women’s prison. In another lawsuit, Karina Collado said Martin Jr. put his hand over her mouth and put his fingers in her vagina in 2020 while she was organizing supplies in a storage room. She said he also performed oral sex on her and she was only able to escape after he exposed himself.

“He scared the hell out of me,” Collado told Gothamist earlier this year.

Martin Jr. threatened to put her in solitary confinement or order other inmates to attack her if she told anyone about the incident, Collado said. The following year, she reported the assault to a corrections officer when she was sent to the north of the state to serve the rest of her sentence, according to a copy of the complaint seen by Gothamist. But her report came to nothing.

The Department of Correction said it had no record of her complaint. State officials said they forwarded it to a Rikers prison warden in May 2021.

“I really told myself, ‘I’m not going to be here forever,'” Collado said. “I kept telling myself, ‘This shit is temporary. You’re not going to get away with what you did to me.’ But at the same time, I was so scared.”

Jessy Edwards contributed reporting.