Crime & Safety
Influencer Says Groper At Disneyland Targeted Her During Live Stream: Report
A man accused of groping a woman while she was at Disneyland was arrested by the Anaheim Police Department, KTLA.
ANAHEIM, CA — A man accused of groping a woman while she was at Disneyland was arrested by the Anaheim Police Department, after the woman claimed the man grabbed her during a livestream with friends at the Anaheim theme park, KTLA reported.
In an Instagram video posted by internet personality Yoatzi Castro, who has roughly 800,000 followers on Instagram, Castro said she was posing for a photo with friends outside Sleeping Beauty Castle during a Sept. 23 livestream when a man in a white T-shirt grabbed her.
"I'm so f— living and I'm so upset," Castro said in the video moments after the incident happened.
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Castro also posted video of the alleged incident, where viewers can see the man and a female companion walking toward the castle when his hand momentarily disappears from the cameras view as he passes Castro.
From there, Castro instantly whips her head around, walks after him and hits him in the back.
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"Bro, no, he grabbed my ass," Castro can be heard yelling.
"What are you talking about?" the man can be heard saying as he walks away with his companion.
According to her video, Castro said that she didn't want to leave the park before the man was found and that Disneyland security reached out to her roughly an hour after the incident to say they had found him.
"Afterwards, I told them that yes, I wanted to press charges," Castro said in a follow-up video. "I just felt so insanely violated. If we weren't streaming, I feel like we would have had no evidence. But thankfully, because we were streaming, we had the video."
While officials with the Anaheim Police Department were not immediately able to identify the accused man, department spokesperson Eric Anderson said the incident happened at around 8 p.m. and that the man was arrested on suspicion of sexual battery, the Los Angeles Times reported.
According to the newspaper, he was cited and released the same night.
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