A parolee simply launched from state jail for sexually assaulting a younger boy and later pushing him off a rooftop, is now accused of raping a 15-year-old woman in a Bronx stairwell, cops and sources mentioned.
Casmine Aska, 29, allegedly pounced on the teenager in an elevator at 140 Bellamy Loop in Co-Op Metropolis Thursday, forcing her right into a stairwell and raping her, cops mentioned. He was arrested Friday evening and charged with first-degree rape, police mentioned.
Aska had solely been out on parole since Jan. 30 after being convicted of tried homicide when he pushed a 9-year-old boy — that he had sexually assaulted — off the roof of a five-story Bronx residence constructing on Feb. 1, 2013, police sources mentioned.
He was locked up in 2017 on an tried homicide cost and served eight years in state jail, state jail information present.
Aska threw the kid off the 1545 Nelson Ave. rooftop in Morris Heights after the sufferer threatened to report the sexual abuse, the sources mentioned.
The autumn left the boy in a coma. He briefly regained consciousness and informed cops how his neighbor, Aska — 17 on the time — confirmed up at his third-floor house and dragged him to the roof.
“I’m praying to God that he will get higher,” the boy’s heartbroken grandfather, 78, informed The Submit in Spanish on the time. “He had leg surgical procedure, and on the similar time, he was operated on his arm.”
The boy was positioned on life assist on the hospital however finally survived.
His grandmother, then 72, mentioned she was house through the incident, however thought the boy had gone to the nook retailer to get a soda for his mom.
The household didn’t understand what occurred till a frantic neighbor yelled that the boy “is downstairs!”
By the point his mom rushed outdoors, the baby was already being loaded into an ambulance.
Together with the second-degree tried homicide conviction, Aska was additionally charged with a legal intercourse act, intercourse abuse, sexual misconduct and performing in a fashion injurious to a baby lower than 17 for the 2013 crime, the sources mentioned.
He has additionally been arrested a number of occasions beforehand for resisting arrest, menacing and assault amongst different prices, the sources mentioned.
He could have used aliases in previous crimes, the sources added.
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