MA TODL 'PERV' TO GIVE UP
'Lasso rapist' must 'be accountable'
A Bronx man was arrested Saturday in a horrific caught-on-camera rape after his mother convinced him to turn himself in, she told The Post.
Kashaan Parks was accused of walking up behind the victim with a belt in hand at about 3 a.m. May 1 as she walked near East 152nd Street and Third Avenue in The Bronx, then tossing the belt around her neck and pulling her to the ground, “causing her to lose consciousness,” police said.
Parks then allegedly brought the woman between two parked cars and raped her, authorities said.
“I’m his mother that turned him in. I’m the one that facilitated him being arrested,” an exhausted Beverly Parks, 56, told The Post.
She claimed her daughter-in-law called her early Friday to tell her Kashaan had choked and raped a woman.
“I found out about this yesterday morning at 5:12 a.m., and I’ve been trying to get my son to do the right thing ever since. And I did,” she said Saturday.
He was charged with first-degree rape, assault, strangulation, sex abuse, public lewdness and harassment.
The victim was rushed to Lincoln Hospital in stable condition.
Kashaan Parks, in a white Tyvek suit, held his head low as he was walked by two detectives from the Special Victims’ Division unit to a car and taken to Bronx Criminal Court. He didn’t answer questions from reporters. He has two prior arrests, including for allegedly assaulting a 46-year-old woman in The Bronx and entering the back of an MTA bus without paying, according to police.
The latest attack was carried out with such eerie precision, one police source said he believed it wasn’t the perpetrator’s first time.
“I definitely think he’s done it before,” said a Bronx detective, who asked to remain anonymous because he wasn’t cleared to talk to the media.
‘Probably more victims’
“It was too clean. Normally, the first time out they make huge mistakes,” he added. “This was no mistake. This guy was precise.”
“There’s probably more victims out there, but what happens is they blackout and don’t remember anything,” the detective said. “How do you get the belt around the neck perfectly like that?”
The unemployed, married father of two had recently moved with his wife and infant daughter back to the Big Apple from North Carolina, but has been struggling with drinking and drugs, his mom said.
His downward spiral appeared to be sparked after Kashaan learned his father died last month in a hospital in Belize, she added.
“He . . . had a 1-year-old baby. It’s not like he was walking the street committing crimes and doing this,” she insisted.
“I had my son go be accountable for his actions, no matter that he was drunk, that he was on drugs, that he was grieving,” she added. “He did something wrong and he has to deal with it. Period.”
Beverly Parks said she hoped the victim could find a way to forgive her son.
“I’m a woman, and I am sorry that this happened to this person. I have to open and close my eyes every day, and ask God to make sure this person is OK and for forgiveness for my son.
“Whatever she has to live with, I am going to have to think about that for the rest of my life.”