Student Groped On Crowded Rutgers Bus

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ — A Rutgers student said a man groped her while the two were aboard a crowded university bus late Friday night.

This happened at 2:30 a.m. Saturday on a Rutgers University bus, operated by First Transit.

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The victim said the bus was crowded and it was traveling between the College Avenue campus in New Brunswick and Livingston campus in Piscataway. She said a man she did not know made repeated and unwanted sexual contact, including touching of her body.

He then immediately got off the bus.

The man is described as a Caucasian man, approximately 17–23 years of age, 5 feet 6 inches tall, with a medium build, short black hair, facial hair and a scar above his left eye. He was wearing blue jeans, an open plaid button-down shirt over a red Spider-Man undershirt, a black jacket and white sneakers.

The Rutgers University Police Department asks that anyone with information regarding this incident, or who may have been in the area at the time of the incident, contact the RUPD Detective Bureau at (848) 932-8025.

The victim did not sustain any physical injury during the reported encounter.