Crime & Safety
12-Year-Old Girl Groped By Man On Fifth Ave Bus: Police
Cops are looking for a man who they believe groped a child on an Upper East Side bus on Saturday afternoon.
UPPER EAST SIDE, NY – A 12-year-old girl was riding the M3 bus on the Upper East Side in the heart of Museum Mile near East 86th Street and Fifth Avenue at about 2:20 p.m. on Saturday, when an adult man sat down next to her and proceeded to “caress her upper thigh,” according to authorities.
The victim immediately got off the bus, cops said.
The man, however, remained on the bus – for almost thirty blocks – disembarking at East 60th Street and Fifth Avenue.
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No injuries were reported.
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/, on X @NYPDTips. All calls and messages are confidential.
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