Serial Rape - a New Orleans family's tradition

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During that time, Navarri henderson would upload more pictures, more videos seemingly unfazed by what police said he did. He got a girlfriend, got her pregnant and then allegedly went into a rage last October that would be his demise.

Navarri allegedly beat his pregnant girlfriend so badly that she was hospitalized for days. Police took his DNA to prove it, having no idea it would link him to the Algiers rapes.
Among his first calls from prison? His mother, Tyisha Henderson.

“Ma, you know I have made some bad choices in life, but this here is not me,” he told her.

We first spoke to her by phone at her home in Arkansas. Navarri never told his mother that police had allegedly linked him by DNA.

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The man police say is a serial rapist is the son of convicted serial rapist.

Stephret Harvey is currently serving a 40-year sentence for rapes in the early 2000s. His M.O? Chillingly familiar. Kidnapping strangers, dragging, choking and raping them.

“And learning about his father, I didn't even know that!” Tyisha’s aunt, Delzorah Barnett said. She helped raise Navarri, but had no idea about his father's violent past. “I knew he was in jail. I don't know what I thought. I thought drugs.”

By 2018 he was threatening to kill -- “My own family don't know the real me,” one post read.

And then a nod to his father: "Free my pops. That's the only man I look up to. when I look in the mirror, I see a reflection of you."

Seven months later he would allegedly rape the 7-months pregnant woman on her way to her Algiers home. Neither his mother nor his aunt is saying or assuming Navarri is guilty, but both have confronted him in jail.

“I always tell him if you didn't do this, pray,” Tyisha said. “God can only help you out of this situation and if it's something that you did do, you need to pray to ask God to forgive you.”

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Then she revealed a devastating secret of her own. “I said, ‘I don't have empathy for the rapist because I am a rape victim.”

She was 15 when a rapist attacked her.

And Tyisha was raped by the man she loved, Stephret, she says. The two women who raised an alleged serial rapist turned out to be rape victims themselves.

“I don't think you just decide you want to be a murderer or a rapist or a child molester,” Delzorah said. “It comes from some deep dark pain.”
But if Navarri's pain came from his childhood, where did his father's come from?

The cycle of violence goes back three generations. Navarri's grandfather was shot to death in front of his kids while he was allegedly beating his wife. Stephret was 10.

“They witnessed his dad's girlfriend murder his father,” Tyisha said.

“The first thing I said is, ‘Oh my God, if my nephew, if he is guilty, the sins, the sins that fall down.” Delzorah said.

Navarri, grandson of a murdered alleged wife beater and son of a convicted rapist sits in jail accused of rapes and beatings himself. His mom and aunt pray for him, but also his alleged victims. For them, they have empathy.

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Navarri Henderson is set to stand trial in June.

If convicted, he'll get life in prison where his father will be until 2054.

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