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Knife-wielding mom foils Qns. rapist’s attempted third attack

VICKERS

VICKERS

He preys on women with sick, vicious stealth.

An armed serial rapist who has attacked three times in southeast Queens in the past two months has been caught on shocking video surveillance pouncing on his latest victim — a 22-year-old woman whom he grabbed from behind Wednesday and dragged by her neck down the street.

But the hooded monster’s 2 a.m. strike near 154th Street in Jamaica was ultimately foiled by a pajama-and-slippers-clad single mom of six who lives nearby and ran to the aid of the screaming victim, authorities said.

“[The victim] was saying, ‘Please stop! Please stop! Don’t hurt me, don’t hurt me!’ ” resident Lashanda Vickers, 28, told The Post yesterday.

“I went right to my kitchen and grabbed a big kitchen knife. He was grabbing her . . . and said, ‘Shut up or I’ll kill you!’ When he saw me standing there, she [got] away from him.”

Vickers said the petrified young woman ran right into her arms.

“She was like, ‘Don’t let him get me!’ I’m standing there, like, ‘He’s not going to get you while I’m standing here!’ ” Vickers said.

“Once he heard police were on the phone, he took off running,” Vickers said. “I’m glad I could [help her]. I have little daughters.

“And I had that big ol’ knife!”

Cops are eyeing the same suspect in two other rapes — one on Oct. 13 near Merrick Boulevard and another Nov. 15 near 142nd Street.

Additional reporting by Rebecca Harshbarger