Parolee nabbed in brutal gal-beating: I’M victim

AN EX-CON with a history of violence — who is accused of wrestling a woman to the ground by her hair and punching her in the head twice before taking her cell phone — says cops have got it all wrong. He’s the victim. Never mind that the woman Daniel Sparber is accused of beating had a black eye and needed stitches to close a head wound after the Hell’s Kitchen attack.

And disregard a criminal record that includes a 15-year prison sentence for slashing a young couple at a nightclub.

Sparber says he’s the one who suffered.

Sparber, 43, was busted after he allegedly followed a woman into the Westfield Marketplace on Tenth Ave. about 1:30 a.m. last May 9, and shoved her to the ground.

Cops said Sparber walked out with her cell phone, then returned and punched her twice in the head .

The woman was treated at Mount Sinai West Hospital and suffered “substantial pain,” according to court papers. Sparber (photo) was arrested during a parole visit nearly four months after finishing a 15-year prison sentence for the 2001 nightclub slashing.

But a lawyer for Sparber argued in pretrial motions that the cops had it all wrong and that there should have been surveillance footage to prove it from inside the store.

A friend of Sparber’s, Manuel Reyes, submitted a sworn affidavit saying that a woman named Donna approached him and Sparber asking for a “bump of cocaine,” which he didn’t give her.

“At some point near the corner of 48th (St.) and 10th Ave., I observed the two of them in what initially appeared to be hugging, and then saw Donna shoving Mr. Sparber,” Reyes wrote.

Later, Sparber realized his gold chain was gone, and when they returned to the spot, they found the medallion that had been on the chain, the friend wrote. Reyes said Sparber believed Donna had taken the chain.

Reyes did not see what happened inside the store and Sparber seemed flustered when confronted by cops when he was arrested on June 6, about a month after the incident.

“I didn’t do anything,” he told detectives. “I was

assaulted and robbed.”

Sparber’s case could go to trial in Manhattan Supreme Court as soon as Monday.

In 2001, Sparber inflicted a night of terror on a young woman on her 19th birthday. She needed about 300 stitches because of his unhinged razor blade attack when she rejected his invitation to dance.

He also nearly severed her boyfriend’s right ear.

Sparber’s attorney Joseph Bondy declined to get into the specifics of his upcoming trial defense, but suggested the jury might hear Sparber’s tablesturned theory.

“The evidence supports that defense because it’s the truth,” Bondy said. “The truth of the matter is he was the victim of a crime. He didn’t intentionally rob or assault anybody.”

Sparber is facing another 15 years behind bars on the robbery account. He also faces charges of second-degree attempted assault and third-degree assault.