MANHATTAN, N.Y. (PIX11) --- Police are searching for a man who sexually abused a 12-year-old girl on a Manhattan street on Monday, authorities said.
The girl was walking near East 85th Street and Park Avenue on the Upper East Side just before 2 p.m. when the man grabbed her backside, according to the NYPD. The child was not injured.
The suspect then ran off, police said.
There have been no arrests.
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