Police Search for Alleged Child Molester
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Police are looking for a man who allegedly posed as a photographer to lure a 13-year-old to an Upper West Side apartment where he took advantage of her in a lewd manner.
Law enforcement officials gave this account: Police were told Monday that on a late afternoon last week, the girl was walking in Central Park when the man approached her and introduced himself as a photographer. They conversed, and he handed her what he claimed was his business card and said he wanted to snap her photograph for a teen magazine. Believing the man’s story, the girl phoned him and scheduled a meeting at Popover Cafe, on Amsterdam Avenue near 87th Street. They met at the restaurant the following day at 12:30 p.m. before walking over to Central Park so she could pose for photographs. The man lured the girl to his brother’s apartment on 87th Street between Columbus and Amsterdam avenues by claiming the lighting was insufficient in the park. The girl complied and, upon entering the apartment, she posed for photographs in the bedroom. At the man’s instruction the girl lifted up her shirt to expose her midriff until the suspect allegedly began to touch her abdomen. Upset, the girl fled the apartment.
It was not clear whether the authorities know the suspect’s name.
This was not the first case of a man luring a young girl to an apartment. Only last month, police from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey arrested a man, Alex Jean, 18, who allegedly lured two teenage cousins to his Upper West Side apartment, where he and another man raped the girls while a video camera was running.