Shomrim patrol chief pleads not guilty to raping 16-year-old girl

The president of the Shomrim neighborhood patrol pleaded not guilty Friday to raping a 16-year-old girl.

Jacob Daskal, 59, was arrested Thursday after authorities set up a recorded call between the politically-connected Brooklyn bigwig and his alleged victim, prosecutors said.

Daskal showed no emotion as Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Deborah Dowling ordered him held on $75,000 bond.

Dowling also ordered him to turn over his passport.

The head of the Orthodox Jewish private security group based in Borough Park walked out of the courthouse minutes later surrounded by six women and four men.

Daskal, dressed in traditional Orthodox Jewish garb, declined to comment.

He was hit with a 20-count indictment — including two counts of felony third-degree rape and six counts of sexual abuse — for allegedly preying on the teen between August and November of last year.

A well-known community leader with ties to politicos and police, Daskal has donated money to state Sen. Simcha Felder (D-Brooklyn) and Mayor de Blasio in his 2009 run for public advocate.

The Shomrim’s links to law enforcement have been a subplot in the ongoing NYPD gun-permit-fixing scandal.

Daskal was not charged in the case involving two businessmen and several NYPD supervisors.

But he has been featured in the press as an outspoken defender of the Shomrim even as it has faced criticism in recent years of operating as an overzealous vigilante group.

The group’s reputation took a hit in 2013 when a Brooklyn jury cleared a man of nearly all charges in connection with a shooting of four Shomrim members.

The Jewish security patrol tailed the man after reporting that he was seen masturbating near children.

The man, David Flores, pulled out a gun as his pursuers converged on him and shot the four Shomrim members.

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They suffered nonlife-threatening injuries. Flores was left badly bruised with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

The 37-year-old Brooklyn man was hit with 16 charges, including attempted murder and assault.

But jurors convicted him of only a single count of carrying an illegal gun, placing much of the blame for the 2010 incident on the Shomrim. The masturbation allegation fell apart at trial.

“Nobody did anything wrong,” Daskal said after the jury announced its verdict.

Flores, who was sentenced to 12 years in prison on the gun charge, remains locked up.

His brother Dennis Flores called the arrest of Daskal, who was involved in the fracas, the “beginning of justice.”

“Karma’s a bitch,” Dennis Flores said.