Overview
- Police identified the suspect as 33-year-old Germaine Parham, who was taken into custody in Amsterdam, New York by NYPD officers working with U.S. Marshals task forces.
- Investigators say the Jan. 29 assault occurred just before 11:45 a.m. inside a building near First Avenue and First Avenue Loop, the attacker took the girl’s phone, and the victim was hospitalized in stable condition.
- Authorities say Parham now faces multiple counts that include rape, predatory sexual assault, kidnapping, robbery, attempted assault, criminal possession of a weapon, and sexual abuse.
- Police sources report Parham has more than two dozen prior arrests and an outstanding bench warrant connected to an earlier case.
- Stuyvesant Town’s administration told residents it would expand public safety patrols, increase building checks, and add call buttons to contact the complex’s public safety office at building entrances.