Picture taken with mobile phone leads to sex-crime arrest!

A courageous woman who was sexually harassed on the New York subway has turned the tables and used her mobile cameraphone to catch the pervert.

The arrested man was apprehended after using his mobile to take a picture under a subway rider’s skirt. The victim, a 28-year-old woman, said she was victimized while climbing stairs to an elevated station in upper Manhattan. A passer-by confirmed her suspicion that he had taken a photo up her skirt and she bravely followed the pervert onto a train and took his picture with her own mobile cameraphone.

The woman told The New York Times that she told the man: “smile because I am going to the police”.

An eagle eyed NYPD officer recognized the 36 year old man from the cameraphone picture that the victim had e-mailed to the police along with her report and he was arrested on misdemeanor charges of attempted unlawful surveillance, attempted sexual abuse and harassment.

Read the full story in the New York Times

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