Accused Subway Masturbator Claims He Was Victim, Report Says

SUNSET PARK, NY — The accused subway masturbator police said attacked a woman before she fought back and turned the knife on him claimed he was actually the victim in the altercation.

Reggie Frank, 47, told the New York Daily News that he wasn't carrying a knife on the R train on Friday but the 47-year-old woman started to attack him after he was "minding his own business" on the train.

“She wakes up and she calls me motherf---er and asks me what I’m looking at,” Frank recalled.

“I tell her I’m on the train minding my own business and I can look wherever I want.”

He admitted to blasting the victim with pepper spray, but said it had little effect.

“I bit her. I bit her hand. I know because I had some skin in my teeth,” he said. “I was trying to grab the knife away.” More via New York Daily News.

Police said that the woman was riding a southbound R train at about 1:50 a.m. on Friday when she saw Frank, of Newark, N.J., masturbating. When she yelled, Frank sprayed her in the face with a can of pepper spray then took out a folding knife and attacked her, cutting her in the hand.

The woman fought back and turned the knife on Frank, eventually stabbing him in the left arm and torso, police said. Frank was arrested at NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn and charged with assault, criminal possession of a weapon and public lewdness.

He's been arrested 26 times before, including 11 times for public lewdness, and was being sought for another public lewdness case on a train, the New York Post reported.

Frank made headlines in 2015 after straphanger Tiffany Jackson snapped a pic of him exposing himself on a Brooklyn 3 train and posted it on Instagram. He was eventually arrested for that case, CBS New York reported.

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