Basam Syed was arrested Tuesday for allegedly pressing against a straphangers backside on a No. 4 train. He's a registered sex offender with 28 prior arrests.
He's a son that only a mother could love.
Registered sex offender Basam Syed, busted Tuesday for pressing against a straphangers backside on an East Side subway, was somehow free despite 28 prior arrests including four while on probation for a 2014 sex crime.
But his mom insisted Friday that her oft-arrested offspring is only looking for the right woman. Its not easy to find a wife and have kids, she declared outside their Queens home. She has to be a Pakistani. She has to be a Muslim girl.
Syed, 35, was arrested after the grinding incident on a northbound No. 4 train. One year ago, he was found guilty of rubbing his genitals against the buttocks of another woman riding the No. 6 train.
His other arrests run the gamut from drug charges to burglary to tongue-kissing a 4-year-old boy.
How is this guy on the street? asked a police source. Somethings wrong here.
Syed, who was released in February after a short stint in Rikers Island, was arrested on March 11 for assaulting his girlfriend. He was charged at the same time with sexual abuse for the incident with her son, but allowed back on the street.
The serial suspects mother insisted her sons rap sheet didnt give a true picture of Syed.
He doesnt need help, she said. Nothing is wrong with him.