The homeless man suspected of raping a 14-year-old girl inside Manhattan's Stuyvesant Town housing complex earlier this year has been indicted on first-degree
raping a 14-year-old girl inside Manhattan ’s Stuyvesant Town housing complex earlier this year, where police had tracked him down following a lengthy investigation. Police said the suspect had 32 prior arrests on his rap sheet, many of them for robbery.
Parham faces a possible lifetime prison sentence if convicted of carrying out the Jan. 29 rape of the 14-year-old victim, who was heinously attacked inside a stairwell of a building near 1st Avenue and the 1st Avenue Loop within the normally quiet Stuyvesant Town complex.Just after 11 a.m. on Jan. 29, law enforcement sources said, Parham allegedly followed the girl into one of the Stuyvesant Town buildings and took an elevator ride with her before leaving.Moments later, according to the charges, he confronted her inside a second building as she waited for an elevator. Police said he allegedly grabbed and dragged her into a nearby stairwell, then slammed her head against a railing. After grabbing a cellphone from her pocket, prosecutors said, he allegedly displayed a knife, threatened to kill her, and then proceeded to rape her. Court records indicated the suspect ended the attack and fled the scene with the victim’s cellphone after a bystander entered the stairwell.Parham was identified as the prime suspect following a preliminary investigation of the rape. Members of the NYPD Fugitive Task Force then tracked him down in Amsterdam, a town about 30 miles northwest of Albany, where he was arrested on Feb. 3. Having been held in custody without bail since his arrest, Parham was indicted on six counts each of predatory sexual assault and first-degree rape, along with additional counts of first-degree robbery and burglary, second-degree burglary, and first-degree sexual abuse. Conviction on a predatory sexual assault, a class A felony in New York state, carries a maximum sentence of life in prison.Robert Pozarycki has been the editor-in-chief at amNY since 2019. Previously, he served as editor-in-chief at the Queens Courier and QNS.com, as well as reporter and managing editor at the Times Newsweekly/Ridgewood Times in Ridgewood, NY.some Brooklyn caregivers lose health coverageYankees’ Jazz Chisholm Jr.: I can be MLB’s next 50-50 guy Red Bull New York to balance beauty with new levels of urgency in 2026: ‘It has to be this f—ing game or no game’ IEHL, Israel’s pro hockey league, returns to UBS Arena to renew rivalry, bring together New York’s Jewish communityall-AmericanBrooklyn building evacuated after explosive manhole fire and carbon monoxide leak
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