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Kari Bazemore (left) has been charged with multiple assaults since being arrested in the slashing of a young woman earlier this week. Photo: Robert Mecea
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The career criminal charged with slashing a woman on her way to work in Chelsea was on the streets because a judge ignored warnings that he’s a “high risk” defendant and sprung him without bail on an earlier assault, The Post has learned.
Kari Bazemore is also suspected in yet another attack on a Bronx woman after Manhattan Judge Laurie Peterson set him free on Dec. 31.
“She screwed up big time,” a court source said of Peterson, who has a reputation among courthouse regulars for being smart and fair. “Was her head in the sand that day or something?”
Bazemore, 41, who has more than 30 prior arrests, appeared before the Mayor de Blasio-appointed jurist on charges he slugged a woman in Greenwich Village as she walked with her husband on Dec. 30.
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Judge Laurie Peterson (bottom right) ignored warnings and let accused slasher and career criminal Karie Bazemore (above left), walk the streets.
Kari Bazemore is also suspected in yet another attack on a Bronx woman after Manhattan Judge Laurie Peterson set him free on Dec. 31.
“She screwed up big time,” a court source said of Peterson, who has a reputation among courthouse regulars for being smart and fair. “Was her head in the sand that day or something?”
Bazemore, 41, who has more than 30 prior arrests, appeared before the Mayor de Blasio-appointed jurist on charges he slugged a woman in Greenwich Village as she walked with her husband on Dec. 30.
Judge ignored warnings, let ‘slasher’ loose despite 30 arrests
By Rebecca Rosenberg, Jamie Schram, Larry Celona and Danika Fears
New York Post
January 8, 2016 | 12:34am
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The career criminal accused of slashing a woman on her way to work at Whole Foods on Wednesday is also suspected of striking a 25-year-old victim on the head with a bottle while calling her a “white bitch,” police sources said.
Kari Bazemore, 41, was charged Thursday night with a third assault, and has been linked to two more attacks since the end of September, sources said.
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Amanda Morris speaks to The Post at her Bushwick home after her horrific slashing ordeal.
According to the newest charges, he struck a 43-year-old victim in the face with a heavy shopping bag as she stood on Fifth Avenue in Midtown on Nov. 4.
Cops have also linked him to a Sept. 29 attack on a 25-year-old salon worker and her 28-year-old friend as they were walking on East 174th Street near Walton Avenue in The Bronx, police sources said.
They had just left a subway station with a third friend, when the 25-year-old victim noticed a man in a gray hoodie running straight at her, police sources said.
The man then smacked the right side of her head with a bottle in a plastic bag, calling her a “white bitch.”
Her 28-year-old friend was injured as she tussled with the bottle-wielding man, who continued screaming, “Bitch!” at her, police sources said.
He is also expected to be charged in the slashing of Nicole Pagliaro, 28, who needed 150 stitches after she was attacked outside of her apartment building on Jan. 1, sources said.
Less than a week later, he was arrested for slashing 24-year-old Amanda Morris’ face as she walked to her job at a Whole Foods in Chelsea.
http://nypost.com/2016/01/09/slasher-hit-woman-with-bottle-while-yelling-white-b-h-cops/
‘Slasher’ hit woman with bottle while yelling ‘white b–h’: cops
By Shawn Cohen and Danika Fears
New York Post
January 9, 2016 | 12:21am
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Victim: Nikki Pagliaro, 28, was just 20 yards from her front door on January 1 when she was approached by a man who said 'don't worry, I won't hurt you', when slashed her across the cheek.
[From article]
She had been aware of footsteps behind her and hurried her pace. Now the man had rounded on her and was standing in front of her.
He told her not to worry; he wasn't going to hurt her. And then he lunged. Without warning or motive he slashed her face and disappeared into the night.
It is exactly one week since Nikki, 28, became a victim of the New York slasher on January 1 - just a day after he had been freed by a judge, even though the court knew about his appalling arrest record.
Now in an exclusive interview with Daily Mail Online, she has relived the ordeal, told of her relief at her attacker's arrest on Wednesday and shared her fears this could happen again.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3391162/New-York-slasher-said-don-t-worry-m-not-going-hurt-attacked-lone-young-woman-just-20-yards-home-left-needing-150-stitches.html
EXCLUSIVE: New York slasher said 'don't worry, I'm not going to hurt you' as he attacked lone young woman just 20 yards from her home - leaving her needing 150 stitches
Nikki Pagliaro, 28, was attacked just yards from her own front door by stranger who said: 'Don't worry, I'm not going to hurt you.'
Knife-wielding man lunged at her, and slashed her face so badly she needed 150 stitches to her left check, she tells Daily Mail Online
'I didn't even realize that he had cut me. I thought I'd got punched. But then I saw all this blood and I'm like, 'Oh s***, this is not good,' she said
Karie Bazemore, 41, was freed day before attack - despite at least 30 previous arrests - having been accused of punching woman in face
He is also charged with second slashing attack on 24-year-old woman on her way to work in Chelsea, Manhattan, five days after attack on Nikki
By LAURA COLLINS FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 18:37 EST, 8 January 2016 | UPDATED: 07:35 EST, 9 January 2016