From: The Wall Street Journal
Grope Cases Set Special Challenges
October 12, 2011
The Wall Street Journal:
The attacks were seemingly random and almost assuredly frightening: In a dozen instances this summer, women on the Upper East Side were violently groped by an assailant, at times in their buildings or the subway.
On Aug. 9, police said they had found the man responsible, Jose Alfredo Perez Hernandez, an 18-year-old salad preparer at a local restaurant. But several months later, Mr. Hernandez, who denies the attacks, stands charged in connection with just three of them.
As police search for one or more assailants behind a similar pattern of sexual attacks in Brooklyn, Mr. Hernandez’s case underscores the challenges …
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