Germaine Parham, a 33-year-old male who is accused of raping a 14 year old girl in the lobby and elevator of a Stuyvestant Town building near E. 18th St. and the First Ave. Loop Rd. has been caught, cops said.
“Members of the NYPD assigned to the US Marshals’ New York/New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force in assistance with the Capital Region Regional Fugitive Taskforce apprehended Germaine Parham in connection with this heinous crime,” the NYPD posted on its X account on Feb. 3.
The sexual assault happened in the late morning of Jan. 29 around 11:40 a.m. and had horrified the community of Stuyvesant Town/Peter Cooper Village which has about 25,000 residents on the East Side of Manhattan between 14th St. and 23rd St. and from 1st Ave. of the East River. Although it is a non-doorman complex, it has its own security force and is ordinarily among the safest neighborhoods in Manhattan with playgrounds for kids and on-site gyms for adults…