A Bronx man could spend the rest of his life in prison for raping two women and sexually assaulting a third woman in his apartment for six days. One of the victims used a food delivery app to desperately ask for help.

Kemoy Royal was sentenced to 34 years to life in prison after being convicted in May of rape and other sex crimes, Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark said Friday.

“The suspect brutally sexually assaulted three women. Thanks to the quick thinking of one of the victims, we were able to hold this sexual predator accountable and prevent him from terrorizing additional victims,” ​​Clark said.

Royal met his first victim on a dating app before meeting in person on June 13, 2022, the investigation said. He invited the 27-year-old to his Eastchester apartment after the two had been talking on the app for several days, where he raped her and forced her to perform sex acts, the DA’s office said.

The next day, Royal was out on the street when he came across the second victim, a 26-year-old woman he said he knew through a friend. He lured her back to his house, refused to let her go, and threatened to kill her. He tried to force her to perform a sex act and strangled her before finally letting her go hours later.

On June 18, 2022, the third victim went to Royal’s home after talking to him on a dating app. He wouldn’t let the 24-year-old leave the apartment, took her phone and threatened to kill her, prosecutors said. Like the previous two victims, Royal strangled and raped her.

The call for help came in the form of an online Grubhub order for food at the Chipper Truck Café in Yonkers the next morning. Surveillance footage from inside the restaurant shows employees receiving the order for an Irish breakfast sandwich, a hamburger, and something else: a plea for help.

“When I saw the message on the paper, I said, just call the police and don’t send the food, because this is something else. It’s an emergency,” said owner Valentine Bernejo.

Alice Bernejo says she always reminds her employees to read the entire order.

“I drove them crazy by saying read the fine print, you have to read it. So they know to check and read it before anything goes in the bag and thankfully that’s what saved the girl, that they did,” she said.

The message said the woman was being held hostage by a man she barely knew. Among the additional instructions on the Grubhub order, the woman wrote, among other things, “call the police” and “please don’t make this too obvious.”

The workers called the police, and officers responded to a home on Pratt Avenue just after 6 a.m. Royal answered the door, thinking dinner was coming, but instead, it was the police who arrested him. The woman was safely rescued from the home.

Information about the lawyer for Royal, 34, was not immediately available.