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Brooklyn Sex Abuser Arrested for Groping 11-Year-Old Girl, NYPD Says

By Ben Fractenberg | September 21, 2016 4:49pm
 Edward Lewis, 47, was arrested after he groped an 11-year-old girl on Monday, the NYPD said.
Edward Lewis, 47, was arrested after he groped an 11-year-old girl on Monday, the NYPD said.
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BROOKLYN — A man with a history of sexual abuse was arrested Wednesday afternoon by police for groping an 11-year-old girl on a Canarsie bus, police said.

Edward Lewis, 47, grabbed the girl’s buttocks while she was on a B6 bus near Flatlands Avenue and East 80th Street Monday morning, police said. Lewis has 12 prior arrests, including a 2007 bust for sexual abuse and weapons possession, a police spokesman said. 

He also has arrests for marijuana possession and a number of the other incidents are sealed, the spokesman added. 

The 47-year-old, who lives on Bedford Avenue near Atlantic Avenue, was charged with sex abuse and acting in a manner injurious to a child.

He was expected to be arraigned in Brooklyn Criminal Court Wednesday evening.