The mother of a man accused of putting a lasso around a woman’s neck, dragging her unconscious and raping her has called for law enforcement on her “sick son” in the twisted assault caught on camera. in the Bronx, where he said he stayed up all night trying to convince authorities to turn himself in.
“I’m his mother who turned him in. I helped get him arrested,” an exhausted Beverley Parks, 56, told the Casshern Parks newspaper.
In the early hours of Friday morning, Ms. Beverley claimed that Ms. Park’s wife called her and told her that he had strangled her and raped her.
“I found out about this yesterday morning at 5:12 a.m. Since then, I’ve been trying to get my son to do the right thing. And I did,” she said Saturday. .
Kashern Parks, 39, was arrested Saturday and charged with first-degree rape, assault, strangulation, sexual abuse, indecent exposure and harassment in the May 1 attack, police said.
Heartbreaking footage shows a masked suspect, Kashern Parks, approaching the victim from behind with a belt in hand, throwing the belt around her neck and dragging her to the ground around 3 a.m., authorities said. It is said that it was reflected in the image.
Police said the suspect then dragged the woman between two parked cars and raped her on a Bronx street.
His mother said the unemployed, married father of two had been struggling with drink and drug problems in recent weeks after learning his father had died in a hospital in Belize last month.
“He…had a one-year-old baby. It wasn’t like he was walking down the street committing crimes,” she said.
“I made my son take responsibility for his actions, whether he was drunk, using drugs, or grieving,” she added.
“He did something bad and has to deal with it. Period.”
Beverly Parks said Casshern, his wife and young daughter lived in North Carolina with his wife’s parents, but recently moved back.
“I said [to Kashaan]”I wish I hadn’t left you there and made that trip,” she recalled. “He just came back from New York. That’s why this was such a shock.”
Kashan Parks has been arrested twice in the Bronx for assaulting a 46-year-old woman and for riding in the back of an MTA bus without paying, police said.
Beverly Parks said she hopes the victim can find a way to forgive her son.
“I am a woman and I am sorry that this happened to this person. I open and close my eyes every day to see that this person is okay and to ask God to forgive my son. must be sought.
“Whatever she has to live with, I have to think about it for the rest of my life.”
