"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 rape charges, prosecutors announced Thursday. Germaine Parham, 33, was initially arrested back on Feb. 3 in upstate Amsterdam, 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. This brutal, broad daylight attack horrified this community and the entire borough, said Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. As alleged, Germaine Parham raped a young girl who was just trying to return home."
"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."
Germaine Parham, 33, has been indicted on first-degree rape charges for the alleged Jan. 29 rape of a 14-year-old inside a stairwell in Stuyvesant Town. Parham was arrested Feb. 3 in upstate Amsterdam after a lengthy investigation and has 32 prior arrests, many for robbery. Prosecutors say he followed the girl into a building, took an elevator with her, later confronted and dragged her into a stairwell, slammed her head against a railing, grabbed her cellphone, displayed a knife, threatened to kill her, and raped her before fleeing with the phone when a bystander intervened. The victim reported the attack and received hospital treatment.
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