NEW YORK, NY – Police in New York City are searching for a suspect who groped a 12-year-old girl on Manhattan’s Upper West Side on Monday. According to detectives with the NYPD’s 19th Precinct, at around 1:55 pm, the victim, a 12-year-old female, was walking when she was approached by an unidentified male individual who placed his hand on the victim’s buttocks.
The individual then fled to parts unknown. There were no injuries reported as a result of this incident.
Police described the man as a black male in his late twenties to early thirties, wearing a blue hoodie and blue jeans.
Anyone with information regarding 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 Twitter @NYPDTips.