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Man arrested in sexual assault of 82-year-old woman on Lower East Side

Saturday, September 21, 2019
LOWER EAST SIDE, Manhattan (WABC) -- Police have arrested a man suspected of sexually assaulting an 82-year-old woman in Manhattan.

Officers took 29-year old David Alexander of the Bronx into custody.
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He's charged with felony assault, burglary and sex abuse.

Police say he went into the victim's apartment at the Rutgers Houses on the Lower East Side on Tuesday evening.
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They say he grabbed her neck and groped her while touching himself, before running off.

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