A creep snapped cellphone photos up a 13-year-old girl’s skirt inside a Long Island Target — but got busted after the kid’s dad caught him in the act, cops said Wednesday.
Aqeel Ahmad, 53, of Selden, allegedly bent down and secretly snapped the sick photos as she browsed greeting cards inside the store last Sunday at around 2 p.m., according to Suffolk County police.
Her father, who police did not name, immediately confronted him — but Ahmad allegedly bolted from the store, leaving customers stunned and the teen terrified, according to investigators.
Aqeel Ahmad, 53, of Selden, snapped cellphone photos up a 13-year-old girl’s skirt inside a Long Island Target before being caught by the child’s father, police said Wednesday. Dennis A. Clark
Ahmad allegedly bent down and secretly snapped the sick photos as the child browsed greeting cards inside the store last Sunday at around 2 p.m.
Ahmad managed to escape from the scene before Suffolk detectives apprehended him at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday in Selden, and has been charged with unlawful surveillance and endangering the welfare of a child. SCPD
Suffolk detectives tracked down Ahmad and arrested him inside his car at an intersection in Selden just after 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, police said.
Ahmad is charged with unlawful surveillance and endangering the welfare of a child, and was held overnight at the Sixth Precinct before his expected arraignment in Central Islip on Wednesday.
Investigators are now working to determine whether Ahmad may have recorded or photographed other victims in similar incidents, and urged any known past victims to come forward with additional information.
A Target spokesperson said in a statement that guest and worker safety is the company’s “top priority.”
“We have no tolerance for this kind of behavior, and we are cooperating with the Suffolk County Police Department in their ongoing investigation,” spokesman Anthony Thomas said.
