act as she had been messaging other men

Jason Melo outside Manhattan Criminal Court yesterday where he is charged with assaulting his girlfriend after making her walk down a street naked

A boyfriend who is accused of shaming his girlfriend by forcing her to walk down a freezing New York street as he filmed the incident and posted it online has told a court 'she deserved it.'

Jason Melo, 24, from the Bronx, appeared at Manhattan Criminal Court charged with assault and endangering a child after he allegedly choked the woman and punched her in front of their newborn daughter.

He denies the charges but claims he then made her walk down the street with only a white towel wrapped around her as he suspected she was sending naked pictures of herself to other men.

At his court appearance yesterday, he was asked if he regretted forcing the woman into the humiliating act.

But he told the New York Post: 'She shouldn't have done what she did.'

The harrowing video first came to light when footage emerged online of a woman being forced to walk through the streets naked while a man, speaking Spanish, hurls abuse at her.

The man, thought to be Melo, says: 'Take off your towel! Co-operate b***h. Show what you are, so pretty and so great. She's a tart. Let's go. Let's go. Say hi to the camera and say why you're doing this.

'Take off your towel and pay the price for the shame I feel after telling you how pretty you were and that I wanted to start a family with you, but it the meantime you were talking to seven other men.'

The woman retorts: 'But not to have sex with them.'

He then rips the towel from her, leaving her completely naked in the street, apart from a pair of boots. As she tried to hide between parked cars, he continued to hurl insults at her.

In the video a man, believed to be Melo, can be heard shouting at his girlfriend in Spanish calling her a 'w****' and a 'b****' while accusing her of texting other men

The woman, who is initially wearing a towel, is then stripped and made to walk around in the street while trying desperately to cover herself with the dust jacket from a motorcycle (right)

She then tried to cover her modesty with the protective sheet from a motorbike.

Melo then later released a bizarre video which showed him handing himself over to police.

In it he calls friends from prison to accuse his girlfriend of lying about being beaten, claiming he never hit her or strangled her.

Melo even says that detectives at the jail have congratulated him for his actions, before trying to justify himself by repeating claims that she was talking with other men.

In a bizarre five-minute clip, which emerged on Facebook, Melo says in Spanish: 'My people I apologize, I see what she said and I want you to know she is lying.

Melo then later released a bizarre video online which showed him handing himself over to police

'There is no proof of what the reports here at prison says, that I strangled her and that I hit her.

'I didn't hit her or anything. Even the detectives are here with me and some of them congratulated me because they see how happy she is and I didn't pull her hair or anything.

'Some of the other prisoners are also on my side and they say some of them would have done worse things.'

Meanwhile the woman he is accused of beating, who has not been identified, has revealed that she was scared of Melo.

She told Univision: 'He started threatening me, he threatened to slash my face.'