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19-Year-Old Woman Groped at Union Square Subway Station

By Patrick Hedlund | October 31, 2011 9:03pm
Police are searching for this suspect, wanted for allegedly sexually attacking a 19-year-old girl inside the Union Square subway station.
Police are searching for this suspect, wanted for allegedly sexually attacking a 19-year-old girl inside the Union Square subway station.
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MANHATTAN — Police released photos of a man they said sexually attacked a teenage girl on the subway platform at the 14th Street-Union Square station.

The suspect allegedly grabbed the 19-year-old victim by the shoulder, lifted her dress, and grabbed her buttocks and genitals on the platform of the southbound 6 train on Oct. 23 around 9:30 a.m., the NYPD said.

Both the suspect and the victim boarded the train, where she snapped a photo of him, police said.

The suspect is described as roughly 30 years old, standing 5 foot 10 inches tall and weighing 200 pounds, police added.

Anyone with information in regards to the incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS. The public can also submit tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM or texting tips to 274637(CRIMES), then enter TIP577.