A career criminal who has been in and out of court-ordered counseling programs was finally taken off Big Apple streets this week — as prosecutors revealed stomach-turning new details of his alleged rape of a teen girl that finally got him locked up.
Germaine Parham, 33, was ordered held without bail on rape, burglary and predatory sex assault charges late Wednesday for the “violent and brazen” attack on the14-year-old girl in Manhattan’s StuyTown village on Jan. 29 — with prosecutors revealing that he threatened to kill the girl while brutalizing her.
“The defendant followed her into a building, physically forced her into a stairwell and sexually assaulted [her], all while possessing a knife and threatening to kill her,” prosecutor Joseph Goldstein told the court.
Parham allegedly got into the tenants-only building by “piggybacking” a resident who entered the building with a keycard — sneaking inside by closely following the woman before the front door shut.
Once inside, the creep spotted the young victim waiting for the elevators. Parham allegedly grabbed her and forced her into a stairwell, where he is accused of slamming her head into the metal railing and forcing her to undress at knifepoint, according to a criminal complaint filed by the DA’s office.
The monster allegedly snatched the teen’s phone, then raped and sodomized her repeatedly, with the attack only stopping when someone walked into the stairwell, forcing him to flee with the victim’s phone.
A fugitive task force made up of NYPD cops and US Marshals tracked Parham down in upstate New York on Tuesday and arrested him before shipping him back to the Big Apple to face charges.
“I think I have no choice but to remand you,” Judge Terry McCormick told Parham in court. “I just think that’s what I have to do in this circumstance.”
The accused rapist has more than two dozen busts on his rap sheet and was wanted on a warrant at the time of the shocking assault, law enforcement sources said.
He had two open cases, including a grand larceny case, when he was charged with the rape.
Over the past two years, Parham has dodged justice at least three times by getting assigned to counseling programs designed to keep criminals out of jail, the sources said.
The first break came after an April 2024 larceny arrest, when he was ordered into a program and remained free despite being issued warrants three times for failing to show up.
In March 2025, he pleaded guilty to petty larceny and was sent into another program — which took him five months to complete a single session, according to the sources.
He was arrested again on Jan. 8 for allegedly stealing $1,835 worth of merchandise from a CVS outlet, and was placed into yet another program at his arraignment — skipping out on that one as well, which led to the open warrant he was sought on when he was charged with rape.
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