A man has been accused of grabbing the feet of two teenage girls in two separate incidents in Farmingdale.
Nassau County police arrested Carlos Sanchez and charged him with endangering the welfare of a child.
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Police said the 28-year-old man touched the feet of a 16-year-old girl while she was on the swings at Lincoln Park and held on when the victim tried to pull away on Monday.
After seeing news reports of that incident—which included a cell phone picture the victim snapped of the suspect in the act—another victim reported a similar case on Tuesday.
The victim in that case was a girl younger than 16 years old who was walking home with two friends from Farmingdale High School when the suspect walked up, took off her shoe, looked at it and asked the girls if they wanted a foot massage on Jan. 24, police said.
The girls walked away and the man drove off in that case, police said. No injuries were reported in either case.
Sanchez will be arraigned Friday at First District Court in Hempstead.
