The Queens woman accused of stabbing her father to death in his home last week told detectives he had repeatedly sexually abused her, police brass reported on Tuesday.
Peter Cavak, a 70-year-old retired bus driver, was murdered inside the family residence on the 11400 block of 109th Avenue at around 7:16 a.m. on the morning of June 5.
According to NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny, Cavak’s wife had heard her daughter yell “He’s trying to kill me!” before she ran into the front bedroom and discovered her daughter, 30-year-old Anna Cavak, on top of him before she fled.
Moments later, officers from the 106th Precinct arrived on the scene to find Peter Cavak covered in blood with multiple stab wounds; responding paramedics would pronounce him dead.
The brutal slaying sent shockwaves through the residential neighborhood.
“He was a nice guy, a workaholic, loved his daughter — he was just getting ready to buy her a third car!” said 66-year-old Wilson, who lived next door to Cavak for over two decades. “He paid for her college, he paid for everything!”
However, Kenny reported that when police caught up to Anna Cavak after she fled to New Jersey, she told officers that her father was allegedly in a cult, and had sexually assaulted her.
“She made statements, once she’s interrogated, that her father was in a cult and that he was abusive,” Chief Kenny said.
Chief Kenny reported that while Peter Cavak has no prior arrest history, he has a domestic incident report stemming from his daughter accusing him of child sex abuse.
Immediately following the murder, neighbors told amNewYork Metro that Anna Cavak also had a sister who died in the same home years prior from a drug overdose. Police say that Anna Cavak made statements alleging her sister had committed suicide based on the same allegations of abuse.
Despite the rift been the daughter and father, locals said that they did not see the slaying coming and believed them to be a happy family.
Anna Cavak is expected to be extradited back to New York on June 12 to face murder charges in Queens.
