A Manhattan District Attorney’s Office employee was arrested for allegedly groping a woman riding a rush-hour train with her 9-year-old son in Queens Tuesday, cops and prosecutors said.
Tauhid Dewan, 28, an analyst for the DA’s office, allegedly pressed his groin against the 40-year-old victim’s buttocks around 5 p.m. on a No. 7 train at Junction Blvd and Roosevelt Avenue — in front of her school-aged son, according to a criminal complaint.
When the victim tried to get off the train, the pervy passenger followed and continued to press himself against her, prosecutors charged.
Tauhid Dewan, 28, allegedly made “inappropriate contact” with the 40-year-old victim’s private area on a Queens train Tuesday, police said.
Dewan did not know the victim, sources said. James MesserschmidtDewan, who was off the clock at the time, was arrested minutes later by cops on the platform and charged with forcible touching, endangering the welfare of a child, sexual abuse and harassment, police and prosecutors said.
Dewan, who has no prior arrests, is a stranger to the victim, law enforcement sources said.
He was released on his own recognizance during his late Wednesday arraignment in Queens Criminal Court, over prosecutors’ request that he be held on $10,000 bail.
Dewan has worked for the DA’s office since 2022. He has since been suspended, according to a spokeswoman.
