robohydra error when doing a POST and then attempting to JSON.parse() the body

ROBOHYDRA PLUGIN CODE:

...
new RoboHydraHead({
  path: '/services/users',
  handler: function(req, res) {
    if (req.method === 'POST') {
      var newUser;
      var rand = Math.floor(Math.random() * (1000 - 100)) + 100;
      for (var i in req.bodyParams) {
        newUser = JSON.parse(i); //error occurs on this line when I try to do this and there is a . in an email address
        newUser.id = rand;
        newUser.uid = rand;
        newUser.name = newUser.firstName + " " + newUser.lastName;
        newUser.username = newUser.emailAddress;
        newUser.created = (new Date()).getTime();
        newUser.modified = (new Date()).getTime();
        newUser.status = "ACTIVE";
        newUser.enabled = true;
      }
      //add new user to Users collection
      console.log(newUser);
      // Users.push(newUser);
      res.statusCode = 200;
      res.send(JSON.stringify(newUser));
      res.end();
    }
  }
}),
...

POST DATA (via postman to endpoint)

{
  "emailAddress": "test@test\U002Ecom",
  "firstName": "Test",
  "lastName": "Testing"
}


SUCCESSFUL OUTPUT (from console.log)

{
  "emailAddress": "test@test.com",
  "firstName": "Test",
  "lastName": "Testing",
  "id": 373,
  "uid": 373,
  "name": "Test Testing",
  "username": "test@test.com",
  "created": 1441983431588,
  "modified": 1441983431588,
  "status": "ACTIVE",
  "enabled": true
}

If I change the email address to test@test.com and POST

{
  "emailAddress": "test@test.com",
  "firstName": "Test",
  "lastName": "Testing"
}


SyntaxError: Unexpected end of input
    at Object.parse (native)
    at AbstractRoboHydraHead.heads.RoboHydraHead.handler (/Users/kbradsha/Development/idiom-ui/robohydra/plugins/idiom/index.js:160:38)
    at AbstractRoboHydraHead.RoboHydraHead.handle (/Users/kbradsha/Development/idiom-ui/node_modules/robohydra/lib/heads.js:205:18)
    at RoboHydra.handle (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/robohydra/lib/RoboHydra.js:289:20)
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/robohydra/lib/RoboHydra.js:297:22
    at AbstractRoboHydraHead.conf.robohydra.registerDynamicHead.RoboHydraHead.handler (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/robohydra/plugins/cors/index.js:42:17)
    at AbstractRoboHydraHead.RoboHydraHead.handle (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/robohydra/lib/heads.js:205:18)
    at RoboHydra.handle (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/robohydra/lib/RoboHydra.js:289:20)
    at IncomingMessage.
<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/robohydra/lib/robohydraserver.js:37:53)
    at IncomingMessage.emit (events.js:104:17)