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A deacon at a Queens Catholic church was arrested for grabbing a woman’s crotch on a Manhattan subway train, authorities said Monday.

Jaime Pinzon, 55, was arrested Friday for allegedly molesting the 27-year-old victim on an F Train near West 47th Street and Avenue of the Americas around 9:30 a.m. Dec. 12, court records show.

Pinzon works as a deacon at St. Joan of Arc parish in Jackson Heights, police sources said.

The woman told cops she tried to move away from the stranger but that he continued to press his hand against her crotch, the police sources said.

She was able to take cell phone photos of the man and even followed him when he got off the train at Herald Square, where she took another shot.

Police were able to identify the man in the photo as Pinzon and arrested him Dec. 15 at his home on 79th Street in Queens, the sources said. He was charged with two counts of forcible touching and one count of sex abuse in the third degree, the court records show.

He was released without bail and is due back in court on Feb. 15.

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