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    NYPD offers $10K reward for ‘animal’ who molested 13-year-old girl in broad daylight at NYC park: ‘Parent’s worst nightmare’

    By Georgett Roberts, Jorge Fitz-Gibbon,

    2024-06-14

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    The NYPD is offering a $10,000 reward for the capture of the “animal” who sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl in broad daylight at a Queens park — as officials revealed disturbing new details of the horrific attack.

    Cops are scouring surveillance video footage around Kissena Park for clues to the Thursday afternoon attack, and deploying a massive police presence to catch the creep, calling it an “all hands on” response.

    “As a father, [a] member of this department for many years, this incident is a parent’s worst nightmare,” NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey said at a Friday briefing on the incident.

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    The NYPD is offering a reward of up to $10,000 for the “animal” who sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl at a Queens park.
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    NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell said the department will spare no resources to catch the creep who molested a 13-year-old girl at Kissena Park in Queens on Thursday afternoon. Stephen Yang

    The suspect approached the victim and her friend, a 13-year-old boy, and forced them into a secluded wooded area with a “machete-style” blade when they resisted, police said.

    He tied their hands with shoelaces and molested the girl, NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said.

    Cops search for pervert who sexually assaulted 13-year-old girl in NYC park: ‘So not safe’

    The sicko then stole their cellphones and telling them to wait 20 minutes after he fled, Kenny added.

    The traumatized youngsters, who had gone to the park to play soccer, returned to their nearby school after the assault and reported it, cops said.

    The suspect is a light-skinned man in his 20s with a heavy Hispanic accent, has braces on his teeth and a tattoo of a bull or a similar animal with red eyes and red horns on the left side of his chest, cops said.

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    The suspect is a light-skinned man in his 20s with a heavy Hispanic accent.
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    The suspect also has a tattoo of a bull or a similar animal with red eyes and red horns on the left side of his chest, cops said. DCPI
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    The assaulter forced two 13-year-olds into a secluded wooded area before tying their hands with shoelaces. Stephen Yang

    13-year-old girl sexually assaulted at knifepoint in broad-daylight attack at Queens park: police

    He was wearing a black T-shirt, black sweatpants, red sneakers and carried a green backpack.

    “We’re investigating and looking at all registered sex offenders that reside in this area,” Kenny told reporters.

    Police said they found a shoelace — possibly one used to tie the two kids — at the scene, as well as a water bottle the pervert appeared to have left behind.

    More than 60 investigators involved in the manhunt, and said NYPD brass met with area school officials to brief them on the investigation.

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    The assaulter was wearing a black T-shirt, black sweatpants, red sneakers and carried a green backpack. Stephen Yang

    “All of the community should be very upset about this,” Maddrey said.

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    “I want them to rest assured that we will spare no expense. We will use every investigative resource and, again, implore the help of the community to help us bring closure for these young children and for this family.”

    Police said the park is typically crowded, including with students from nearby schools.

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    NYPD patrol near Silent Springs Playground in Kissena Park after the incident. Stephen Yang
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    Police said about 60 of New York’s Finest have been deployed to catch the “animal” who molested a 13-year-old girl at a Queens park on Thursday. Stephen Yang

    “We’ll be in this park,” NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell added, calling it an “all hands” response.

    “We are working hand in hand with the Detective Bureau, whatever Chief Kenny and his people need,” he added.

    “We will work with school safety and community affairs, whether it be street enforcement, to elicit information, to leafleting, whatever we need to do to take this animal — animal — off the streets.”

    The NYPD is asking anyone with information on the incident to call its Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).

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