{"id":204804,"date":"2026-04-21T15:42:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T15:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/204804\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T15:42:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T15:42:23","slug":"nypd-seeks-man-who-allegedly-assaulted-child-in-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/204804\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPD seeks man who allegedly assaulted child in Queens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"6HBVRXCVTRBXRGOYQLUJMUZUMM\">Police are searching for a man after he allegedly groped a child in Queens.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"nws abuse DCPI\" class=\"article__image-content\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/VPZ2BWD2ZBHRRE6NQFO2JGHUQU.jpg\"  \/>Police are searching for a man who they say grabbed a six-year-old&#8217;s groin area in Queens on Thursday, April 16, 2026.(Courtesy DCPI)<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"LZXY7WT32NEVRNX6TZ6M5E4WLY\">On Thursday, April 16 at around 3:30 p.m., a six-year-old child was inside a commercial building located on Jamaica Avenue when an unknown man approached her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"AZYED623DZFUVFCKPGYAU7WBIY\">The man then grabbed her groin area and fled the location on foot in an unknown direction, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"UOFQ2FQFXJAFFH4EI4J3DKKEZQ\">Police described the man as having a medium complexion and was wearing blue pants, a gray shirt, black and white sneakers, and a black hat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"D2U2XC5ISFFOHJXO22PBCHZU5A\">Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call the NYPD\u2019s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"S3YW6BRDYFGHNMTVOC6EHYDJCA\">The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crimestoppers website at <a href=\"https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/<\/a>, or on X @NYPDTips.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"IZC7LVWL3JBZ3CK6PV7LWQL5S4\">All calls are strictly confidential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are searching for a man after he allegedly groped a child in Queens. Police are searching for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-204804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}