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   MELROSE, The Bronx — Police are searching for a man who they say used his   
   belt like a lasso and choked a woman until she was unconscious, and then raped   
   her.   
      
   Late Friday afternoon, detectives identified the man as Kashaan Parks, 39. He   
   has five prior arrests, according to the NYPD, and now they seek him in   
   relation to the crime that cops describe as heinous.   
      
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   It was described similarly by residents in the area where it happened, near   
   East 152nd Street and Third Avenue.   
      
   “I was really shocked to see someone take a belt — that’s a weapon–   
   and to use it around somebody’s neck and just pull it like that,” said   
   Darlene Jackson, who said that she’s lived in the area for 40 years. “You   
   have no defense against    
   it,” she continued, “especially if you’re going backwards.”   
      
   The woman who was targeted in the sex crime, which was captured on   
   surveillance video, fell backward after her attacker came up from behind her   
   with a wide belt that he threw over her head, and used to choke her. In the   
   video, she’s seen trying to    
   remove the belt from around her neck, as the man pulls her to the ground. She   
   passes out, and the man drags her between two parked cars, where he then   
   sexually assaulted her, according to detectives.   
      
   It happened around 5 a.m. on May 1.   
      
   “You could be going to work at that time in the morning,” said Minnie   
   Williams, another local resident. “So I feel really sad.”   
      
   Williams was among many women in the area who said that they feel much less   
   safe with the suspect still out there.   
      
   “After I saw the video,” said a Melrose resident who gave only her first   
   name, Joannie, “I was like, I’m not going outside ‘cuz I don’t know   
   what’s going to happen to me, like what happened to this lady.”   
      
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   Police said late on Friday afternoon that the woman, 45, knows the man who she   
   says attacked her. They’re familiar to each other from the neighborhood,   
   said investigators.   
      
   They also said that after the woman regained consciousness, she made her way   
   to Lincoln Hospital, a trauma center four blocks away.   
      
   That move was praised by advocates for survivors of sexual assaults.   
      
   Cynthia Amodeo is the CEO of Barrier Free Living, a Bronx-based support   
   network for survivors of violence.   
      
   “To go to the hospital, and tell the police, and seek out resources for   
   herself,” said Amodeo, “that was an amazing thing that she was able to do   
   for herself.”   
      
   Detectives said that the woman got help, but didn’t report the crime at   
   first. Instead, they said, she was arrested recently for petit larceny, and   
   that’s when she told investigators about what had happened. They said the   
   video of her being pursued,    
   lassoed, choked, dragged and raped shows just how intensely violent the crime   
   was.   
      
   That video can also be instructive, said Amodeo, the head of the survivor   
   advocacy organization. She said that it shows what survivors can and should do.   
      
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   “This person sought help, this person spoke up,” Amodeo said. It can send   
   a message to other survivors of sex crimes, who are many times less willing to   
   come forward about what has happened to them, according to survivors’   
   advocate. She said that    
   the message to fellow survivors about coming forward is, “Maybe I can too.   
   Maybe there’s justice out there for me.”   
      
      
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