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Man Gropes 11-Year-Old Girl on MTA Bus, Police Say

By Kathleen Culliton | September 20, 2016 3:23pm
 Video surveillance caught an image of the man police suspect of groping an 11-year-old girl on Monday, the NYPD said.
Video surveillance caught an image of the man police suspect of groping an 11-year-old girl on Monday, the NYPD said.
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BROOKLYN — A man grabbed an 11-year-old girl’s buttocks on a B6 bus in Canarsie, police said.

The suspect groped the girl at about 7:45 a.m Monday as the bus approached the East 80th Street stop on Flatlands Avenue, police said. 

He left the bus when the doors opened and fled in an unknown direction, according to the NYPD. 

Police described the suspect as a man between 27 and 35 years old who stands approximately 5-foot-7 and weighs about 150 pounds.

He was last seen in gray sweatpants, a gray T-shirt and gray hat, police said. 

Anyone with information in regards to 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).