{"id":122613,"date":"2026-02-04T13:59:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T13:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/122613\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T13:59:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T13:59:34","slug":"man-charged-with-raping-and-robbing-14-year-old-girl-in-manhattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/122613\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with raping and robbing 14-year-old girl in Manhattan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"wthdo\">Police on Tuesday arrested a man they suspect of raping and robbing a teenage girl in Manhattan last week, NYPD officials said.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"3j3hc\">Germaine Parham, 33, allegedly approached the 14-year-old girl in her Stuyvesant Town building around 11:40 a.m. last Thursday. Police said he sexually assaulted her, stole her cellphone and fled.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"3uori\">NYPD members assigned to the U.S. Marshals New York\/New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force caught Parham outside of the city on Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NYPDnews\/status\/2018783244741976482?s=20\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">according to officials<\/a>, though they did not say exactly where.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"rbk7\">Parham was brought back to Manhattan and charged with rape, robbery, predatory sexual assault, kidnapping, sex abuse and criminal weapons possession, the NYPD said.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"55dlo\">Police said Parham is currently homeless. Information for his lawyer was not yet available early Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"d30c5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/assets\/nypd\/downloads\/pdf\/crime_statistics\/cs-en-us-013pct.pdf\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">City data shows<\/a> reported rapes have risen slightly so far this year compared to the same point last year in the 13th Precinct, which includes StuyTown\/Peter Cooper Village, Gramercy, Flatiron and Union Square. The precinct recorded three rapes this year through Feb. 1, up from one during the same period in 2025.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"12ibv\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/assets\/nypd\/downloads\/pdf\/crime_statistics\/cs-en-us-city.pdf\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Citywide<\/a>, the number of reported rapes so far this year is roughly level with the same timeframe last year, the data shows.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"dt8oq\">This is a developing story based on preliminary information from police and may be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police on Tuesday arrested a man they suspect of raping and robbing a teenage girl in Manhattan last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-122613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}