EXCLUSIVE: Queens mosque instructor charged with molesting 9-year-old girl

A 46-year-old religious instructor at a Queens mosque has been arrested on charges of molesting a 9-year-old student, the Daily News has learned.

 

Mohammad Rana of Queens was charged with sex abuse and endangering the welfare of a child for groping the girl at the Masjid Abu Huraira Mosque on 31st Ave., police sources said.

MTA sees spike in reports of sexual abuse on subways

City straphangers are grabbing onto more than just poles.

With victims encouraged by police and transit officials to come forward, sex abuse complaints in the city’s transit system skyrocketed in 2015 as cops saw a rise in reports about creeps groping, molesting and grinding up against vulnerable women riders in packed subway cars, the Daily News has learned.

 

The city ended 2015 with a nearly 33% increase in sex abuse cases on the rails — from 98 in 2014 to 130, according to documents obtained by the Daily News.

There was also a 25% jump in forcible touching cases — from 272 in 2014 to 340 — and a 9.3% increase in public lewdness cases, where men are found pleasuring themselves on the train.

LAWSUIT: BILL COSBY'S ARREST, charged with 2004 Sexual Assault of former Temple University Employee Andrea Constand in his Pennsylvania home

Here's where the laughter ends.

Bill Cosby — America’s Dad — accused of rape by dozens of women, was finally hit with a criminal charge Wednesday before getting released on $1 million bail.

Just weeks before the statute of limitations was set to expire, prosecutors charged Cosby with sexually assaulting a Temple University employee at his suburban Philadelphia mansion in 2004.

“The evidence is strong,” said Montgomery County Prosecutor Kevin Steele, announcing a single count of aggravated indecent assault against the creepy comedian.

THE BIGGER THE MEANING OF BILL COSBY'S ARREST