A convicted blind pervert who once tricked Channel 11’s “Help Me Howard’’ segment into finding him an apartment in a landmark Manhattan building allegedly went bonkers on a court officer who refused to personally escort him to a meeting on his sex-offender status.
Charles Ghose, 31, was convicted of molesting a 15-year-old boy in Great Britain in 2005. He later came to New York, where he wound up in a homeless shelter — and contacted Howard Thompson, star of the “Help Me Howard” feature, who got real-estate lawyer Adam Leitman Bailey to get him a studio apartment in the former Prince George Hotel on East 28th Street.
“There’s no way in a million years we would have helped him had we known” about his past, Bailey told The Post.
On Thursday, Ghose — who is required to check in with the NYPD’s Special Victims Unit at the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse every 90 days — verbally attacked a court officer who wouldn’t take him 30 feet to his meeting.
One day after the nation paused to remember the thousands killed in the Sept. 11 terror attacks, and just blocks from Ground Zero, Ghose told the officer: “You should have died in 9/11. F–k off!”
But the nasty felon got his comeuppance after storming off down the hall and walking into a storage room, where he had to call for rescue from the mops and buckets.
Now, Ghose plans to file a complaint against the court officer. “I asked for assistance and the gentleman acted very unprofessionally,” Ghose whined.
“Even if he doesn’t like people on the [sex-offender] registry, he can see I’m blind. Just help. It’s human kindness.”
Ghose, who has been completely blind since childhood following an illness, insisted he “didn’t deceive” Thompson on the apartment, because no one asked if he was a criminal and a bureaucratic delay had temporarily kept him off New York’s sex-offender registry.