The Pen Might Not Be Mightier Than The Sword, But It Can Still Smart

In a media-obsessed city, this sort of fetish seems almost natural*:

A UPS manager was arrested for delivering cash to a teenage girl who fulfilled his sick sexual fetish by letting him prod her with a ballpoint pen, authorities said yesterday.

Prosecutors said Frank Ranieri, 25, of Ashton Drive on Staten Island, sometimes posed as a cop to win the trust of high-school girls in front of whom he would masturbate after “puncturing their buttocks” with a pin or a pen, according to a criminal complaint.

Although Ranieri was arrested for sexually assaulting only one of the girls, a 17-year-old, prosecutors said the deranged delivery man carried on with at least four other high school students, including one who was 15.

“Several thousand dollars have been laid out for these acts,” said Wanda DeOliveira, a prosecutor for the Staten Island district attorney.

DeOliveira said that starting in 2003, Ranieri used money and a promise of paper routes to target girls at Tottenville HS.

Cops said his latest victim was assaulted numerous times over two weeks in April, during which he paid her at least $500.

The victim suffered bleeding, bruising and substantial pain, according to officials.

Ranieri was busted after one of the girls came forward to cops.

Or is this an “I have a gub” moment? The Daily News seems to have heard it differently:

A former NYPD recruit told investigators he got pleasure out of paying underage girls on Staten Island to pierce their flesh with pins, law enforcement sources said yesterday.

Frank Ranieri, 25, was arraigned in Staten Island Criminal Court on charges of second-degree assault as a sexually motivated crime, authorities said.

“He said he liked to see the pins go through muscle and flesh,” a police source said. “A sexual deviant. He didn’t see much wrong with it.”

*In fact, I’m surprised this wasn’t included in Peter B.’s all-you-can-eat buffet.