THIEF ADMITS GUILT IN 2 RAPES

Leebert Morrison, a 25 year old Queens man, pleaded guilty yesterday to raping a teenage girl and a 67 year old woman in unrelated assaults three years ago.  He admitted raping a 16 year old girl in a Bayside backyard in June 2002.  A month later, he broke into the older woman's Jamaica home and raped her twice.  He was caught after he pleaded guilty to a 2002 burglary and gave a DNA sample that later matched the genetic material found at the scene of the two rapes.  He pleaded guilty yesterday in exchange for a promised sentence of 24 years in prison.

(New York)