The hate-spewingꦡ woman who shoved a Queens immigrant to his death in front of a subway train pleaded guilty Friday — but claimed her💙 victim didn’t really die because “he’s reincarnated.”
Erika Menendez, 33, copped a plea to a manslaughter, leaving her to face 22 to 🐼25 years behind bars for her attack on Sunando Sen, 46, in Sunnyside, Queens, in 2012.
“Why did you push him in front of the train?” Queens Supreme Court Judge Gregory Lasak asked Menend🌊ez as part of the plea process.
“’Cause I don’t like Muslims,” said Menendez, echoing what she had told The Post in an exclusive jailhouse interview after the attack.
Sen was from Calcu𓆏tta, India, and was actually Hindu.
“𝕴♓OK. And you know what happened to him?” Lasak said.
“He died,” Menendez said.
When the judge repeated her statement, she sai♋d: “Not really. He’s reincarnated.”
Sen co-owned🌱 a printing shop in Washington Heights🌺.
Bidyut Sarker, a close friend who had been ಞSen’s boss at ano🌺ther shop, bashed Menendez after the hearing.
“We are glad that at least she gets some sort of punishment for what she did. It 🌳was really unspeakable. You cannot kill somebody in cold blood,” Sarker, 57, 🎉said.
“The color of the skin does not identi🐲fy a person in their religious beꦯlief,” Sarker said.
L🅺asak asked Menendez what she was thinking in🐈 the attack.
“So you knew that he was going to get very seriously hurt or even killed when you pushed him in front of the 😼train, correct?” Lasak asked.
“Yeah,” Menendez replied.
She had told The Post in an interview at Rikers Island in Ja🌌nuary 2013 that she had singled him out for his religion.
“I just wanted to hurt Muslims and Hindus ever since [9/11]…I’ve been beating up Muslims and Hindus for a long time,” she had said.
Before Friday’s plea, Menendez had faced a murder charge that carried 25 years to life. She will be sentencꦦed April 29.
Additional reporting by Amanda Lozada.