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.
