A Manhattan man convicted of raping a transgender woman inside an apartment stairwell in 2022 was ordered Tuesday to spend the next 12 years in state prison.

Nicholas Encarnacion was brought before Judge Kathryn Paek on the afternoon of Aug. 26, his hands handcuffed behind his back. He was dressed in khaki color prison garb, his long hair pinned behind his back. He looked up through his glasses as he waited to learn his fate.

Encarnacion’s victim, Siobhan Ebert, also appeared in court for the sentencing of her rapist. According to court documents, the pair were once neighbors and lived in the same Two Bridges apartment on the Lower East Side.

At around 10:30 p.m. on Oct. 9, 2022, law enforcement sources said, Ebert had just left dinner with her fiancé and friends and headed back to her

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