A Bronx woman claims an NYPD officer sexually assaulted her and pleasured himself in the back seat of her car — and police are now investigating the alleged incident, The Post has learned.
The nightmare began shortly after Pamelys Aquino was pulled over for an illegal turn around 12:45 a.m. on May 23, and then taken to the 44 Precinct station house near Yankee Stadium because cops said her license was suspended, which she denied, she said in a YouTube video.
Her passengers, including a female relative and a man with an arrest warrant, were also taken to the station house, she claims.
The two were released after about three hours, but Officer Kristopher Recalde, who was with the NYPD’s Community Response Team, kept Aquino behind, she alleged.
“He told me he kept me in the precinct longer because he wanted to be with me,” Aquino wrote in an Instagram post.
The 27-year-old police officer also refused to return her keys and told her something was wrong with her car, she claims in the video.
“He’s like, ‘Oh let me walk you to the car so I can tell you what’s wrong with your car,’” she said.
Then, the officer allegedly grabbed her and demanded, “Give me a kiss if you want to get in the car.”
“I gave him a kiss, I got in the car,” she said on the video filmed by CopWatch, a group that regularly films police officers and looks for misconduct.
She said she was afraid to go back inside the station and report what had happened so she tried to leave.
“What you want me to do run into the precinct and tell them he’s doing this?” she asked. “With what f–king proof?”
“I’m thinking I don’t know what’s going on,” she continued. “You just asked me for a kiss while you were holding your side. You’re a cop. I’m f–king scared.”
Once she got into the driver’s seat, the cop allegedly slid in the backseat and told her to drive, she claimed.
“He’s talking, he’s talking. He’s telling me, ‘Go,’” she claimed.
She drove a little more than a block, but was trying to stay close to the station house, she said.
“Damn,” she tells the interviewer at one point. “Just give me a second, I’m sorry. I don’t want to cry. I’ve cried so much.”
She then began weeping.
“So as I’m driving and he’s doing that he puts his hand on my t—ie,” she sobs. “He puts his hand on my t—ie. He’s masturbating. I’m telling him, ‘OK. Can you go now please?’”
“I was mad,” she said, crying again. “I felt dirty. I felt disgusting. I didn’t want to do what he made me do, you know. I was scared. This is what I needed everybody to know. I was scared. I was so f–king mad.”
At that point, she lied and told the cop she had to put her purse in the trunk. He said, “Ok,” and got out of the vehicle, according to her account of the incident.
Aquino said she was thinking she would “walk a little bit and then run,” she said. But she didn’t.
“I don’t know what he could do to me,” she said. “He’s a cop.”
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Recalde allegedly demanded she get back in the car and she complied.
“When I got in the car, he opened the other side door,” she said. “He took his badge, his stuff off. He threw it in the seat. There was like two vests he had on.”
He then unzipped his pants and returned to the backseat, she recalled.
“He’s telling me ‘calm,’” Aquino said.
“He’s playing with his d–k,” she said. “He’s grabbing me… He’s pulling me. He’s doing all this stuff with his hands, touching other places. … I’m still driving.”
“Then he starts yelling, ‘Put that p—y in my face,” she claimed.”Put that a– in my face. When I looked, he came.”
She said that when it was over, she called 911 and was transferred to IAB. It’s unclear in the video when the officer exited the car.
“They swabbed my car,” she said. She claims she also talked to the Bronx District Attorney’s Office.
Aquino posted what she said was a photo of Recalde’s bulletproof vest in her car on Instagram.
Aquino referred The Post to her lawyer, Nicholas Dayan, who acknowledged that he filed a notice of claim with the Comptroller’s Office, which is a precursor to a lawsuit.
Aquino also secretly recorded almost two minutes of video near the end of the attack, she claimed in the video.
The officer’s duty status has been modified while the department investigates the allegations, an NYPD spokesperson said.
Recalde, who joined the Force in 2021, made $82,960 in 2025, according to city payroll records. He was transferred to a public housing development to watch surveillance cameras last month, a common posting for cops who are in hot water, public records show.
Attempts to reach the police officer were unsuccessful. The Bronx District Attorney’s Office didn’t return a call seeking comment.
