An African immigrant used a razor blade to mutilate a woman’s genitalia in a gruesome mingling of culture, cruelty and crime, the Daily News has learned.

Moussa Diarra, 48, was arrested after the alleged Sept. 14 attack on the 24-year-old victim at his upper Manhattan apartment, authorities said.

The victim says she was reluctant to call police because Diarra threatened to kill her if she exposed his attempt at performing a female circumcision — removing her clitoris.

Diarra, a native of the Ivory Coast, sliced the woman’s genitals with a razor blade “for his own direct sexual gratification,” according to a criminal complaint.

The suspect, arrested Sept. 23, was indicted six days later on charges of a criminal sexual act and two counts of assault — along with a fourth count of aggravated sexual assault for inserting a foreign object into her vagina in the month before the razor attack.

The woman claimed the 5-foot-10, 180-pound Diarra attacked her after she rebuffed his sexual advances, a police source told the Daily News.

The Chelsea parking lot attendant then forced himself upon the woman before attacking her with the razor. The victim was “bleeding and (in) substantial pain” after the attack, the complaint charged.

Female circumcision is prevalent in the Ivory Coast and other African nations, including some where the procedure is viewed as accepted practice for men wanting to control a woman’s sexuality.

A 2013 UNICEF report estimated that more than 5 million female residents of the Ivory Coast are victims of forced genital mutilation.

The police source said Diarra specifically said before the attack that he wanted a circumcised woman. The defendant’s arraignment was set for Oct. 27.

Diarra – who immigrated to the United States in 1990 – denied the heinous charges. The victim only accused him after their relationship splintered over her belief that Diarra was seeing another woman, the suspect charged.

“I never cut her. I don’t know how (she got cut),” said Diarra, wearing a green prison jumpsuit, in a jailhouse sit down with the News.

Diarra said he met the victim online in 2010 and brought her to the United States in January from an undisclosed country.

But their relationship began to crumble as time went by, and she began making threats about bringing charges in mid-September.

Diarra was jailed at the Manhattan Detention Complex after voluntarily going to a police precinct once he heard cops were looking for him.

“I’m a non-violent person. I’m an honest man,” Diarra insisted. “I ask God to help, if there’s some way to get out of here.”

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