Police are looking for a man who sexually abused an 11-year-old girl on a New York City subway at knifepoint in the middle of an afternoon last month, authorities say.
The girl was on a northbound No. 4 train approaching the East 149th Street and Grand Concourse station in the Bronx around 3:30 p.m. Oct. 18, which would have been around the time school let out, when a stranger approached her.
According to police, the man showed her a box cutter and, in Spanish, warned her to be quiet, then proceeded to caress her leg, waist and buttocks before getting off the train at the 161st Street-Yankee Stadium stop.
The child wasn't physically hurt, police said. They released a sketch of the suspect, who was described as about 40 years old and about 5 feet tall. He walked off the train and into the neighborhood — and remains on the loose.
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Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS. A reward is being offered for any information leading to an arrest.
