Antwon Pitt was sentenced today to serve 60 years in federal prison after he was convicted in June of rape committed during a home invasion last October in Hill East.

Pitt, now 22 years old, was convicted on eight charges stemming from the rape of a 40-year-old college professor in her bedroom, which left her with fractures in her eye socket and cheekbone that required surgery.

“I thought I was going to die,” the woman said during testimony about the rape on October 13, 2015.

Pitt was arrested the next day with the victim’s cellphone, after D.C. Police tracked it to a gas station in Mitchellville, MD. He matched the woman’s description of her attacker, and surveillance footage outside the condominium placed him there after the rape. Additionally, investigators found the victim’s DNA on his gloves.

In court, Pitt maintained his innocence and blamed a cousin for the rape, saying he was in the area to collect stolen checks and a cellphone from him. The jury convicted him on all charges: two counts of first-degree burglary and one count of first degree sexual abuse.

Prosecutors asked for 60 years for Pitt. D.C. Superior Court Judge Florence Pan concurred, calling him a “violent and aggressive individual” with a “lack of remorse or acceptance of responsibility,” according to WTOP.

Pitt was the subject of a Post investigation into how the justice system in the District and elsewhere failed to get him off the streets, despite multiple red flags.

At age 21 he already had an extensive rap sheet, arrested and imprisoned repeatedly. Despite missing a series of court-ordered meetings and cutting off his GPS ankle monitor, the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency did not issue a warrant for his arrest.

The rape left the neighborhood frightened and angry, particularly after learning that he had recently been released from incarceration.

“Someone said, ‘I look at his background, and I think he’s okay,’ ” ANC Commisioner Denise Krepp told The Post. “And that individual owes my neighbor an apology. Because but for him being released, he would not have been in this neighborhood.”