There’s often a built-in loyalty when it comes to children and their parents. We instinctively protect our closest relations from danger. Many of us will even go as far as shielding them from the punishment they may rightly deserve. But for one Brooklyn boy, the crime for which his father was accused was so heinous, he turned him into police. He didn’t think his father was capable of it. Unfortunately, police didn’t agree and they arrested 44-year-old Felix Rojas, and charged him with necrophilia.
Rojas’ son recognized his father’s face on NYPD security footage and confirmed his identity for the authorities, the New York Daily News reports. He told them he did not believe his father was guilty. Still, Rojas was charged with crimes related to allegedly raping a corpse on a subway train earlier this month, before allegedly robbing the deceased. The incident took place on April 9, 2025, after Jorge Gonzalez, 37, died on the R train.
Security footage captured Rojas allegedly raping and then robbing the man’s corpse. Authorities claim he violated Jorge Gonzalez orally and anally. Shortly after Rojas’ allegedly committed the depraved acts, another woman robbed Jorge Gonzalez as well. Later, a Metropolitan Transportation Authority worker found Jorge Gonzalez face down in the train car. The subway train was stopped at the Whitehall St. subway station around 12:30 a.m. when the worker discovered the body.
An initial autopsy has proved inconclusive. But Jorge Gonzalez’s estranged wife, Teresa Gonzalez, told New York Daily News she suspects he died of cirrhosis of the liver. He reportedly struggled with alcoholism. The estranged couple, who shared a son, were happy before Jorge Gonzalez’s addiction caused him to lose jobs and eventually abandon the family. He left the family home around five years ago.
“We were happy. Yes, we were. But the thing is all the pressures of life, new marriage, new child, I was working a lot, he was working a lot and slowly he just became an alcoholic,” Teresa Gonzalez said. “He was putting the alcohol over everything else.”
“He just took off and just rode into the sunset,” she said, recalling the end of their relationship. “We were having issues. He just decided to leave the house and that was pretty much it. Once or twice he would call.”
The estranged wife said Jorge Gonzalez tried rehab and got sober several times. But it never lasted long. His wife described the Mexican immigrant as formerly having an adventurous spirit and being a good provider.
Sadly, the former couple’s 13-year-old son accidentally learned what happened to his father’s body when he overheard his mother speaking to detectives on the phone. “He heard on speakerphone,” Teresa Gonzalez said. “I didn’t realize that’s what they were going to tell me — until it was too late.” the unnamed son responded to the news, tragically.
“Now I really don’t have a dad,” the teenager said of his overhearing the news. The woman who stole from Jorge Gonzalez’s corpse is still at large.
