Woman Groped Monday Morning on 6 Train: Police

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — Police are asking the public to help identify a man accused of groping a woman on the subway Monday morning at an Upper East Side station.

Around 9:30 a.m. as a 19-year-old woman was leaving the 6 train at the 68th Street station she was groped by a man who then followed her off the train, police told Patch. The man exited the train and followed the female victim as she went to her school, police said. When the victim noticed the man following her he fled, police said.

Police describe the suspect as a bald man in his 40s about 5-foot-10. He was wearing a blue t-shirt, light colored shorts and a backpack at the time of the attack, police said.

Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or 1-888-57-PISTA (74782) for Spanish. The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime stoppers website or by texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) and entering TIP577. All tips are confidential.

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