A subway sicko appears to sexually assault a sleeping woman on a Manhattan train in a disturbing video filmed by another straphanger.

Passenger Jasheem Smiley, of Brooklyn, watched the man sit next to the woman and then reach in between her legs, in full view of other riders, on a southbound 4 train early Saturday.

“When he started touching her, that’s when I turned my camera on,” Smiley told Gothamist.

“My jaw dropped. I had never seen anything like this before.”

The man looked “suspicious” when he got on the train at the 96th St. station, Smiley said.

“He gave her a look like he knew her or something, and I turned the music off in my headphones to hear what was going on.”

After Smiley got the footage, he and another passenger “took charge” and confronted the man, he said.

“We told him, ‘That’s not right!’ But he kept touching her, so I kicked her foot so she’d wake up, but she didn’t,” Smiley told Gothamist.

“Then he put his arm around her to try and pull her closer and that’s when she woke up. She gave him a look like, ‘Who the hell are you?’”

The woman punched the man on his cheek “pretty hard” and got off the train, Smiley said. She didn’t appear to be intoxicated, he added.

Smiley says he showed the video to the conductor, but by the time the train was stopped, the man had already left.

He contacted the NYPD and MTA police, who are conducting an investigation.


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I don't understand why somebody didn't try to stop him and then hold him until police arrived.

So this other passenger decided to video tape him instead of stopping him? Sign of the times.

so.... nobody alarmed the train operator or called 911????

WTF?

I NEVER go to sleep on trains

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I really can't with the world today. The moment people see someone being assaulted, rather sexually or violently, their first instinct is to pull out phones to record rather than help. Or, call the cops. smdh.

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If he would be so brazen to molest her so openly, what's to say that he wouldn't attack anyone that tried to stop him?

Jasheem Smiley, you sir...are a f#cking retard. He seems like a pervert himself. Why tape when you could get his sick ass off of her?

Did it ever occur to this dumb ass that the reason he's 'never seen anything like this before' is because most people would fucking intervene by stopping the bastard instead of grabbing their cameras.

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It is indeed a sign of the times. The guy with the camera is filming it like it's some exhibitionist porn movie. I don't see why the woman had to punch him when grown ass men were there who should have done it for her. He needed a good, old-fashioned beat down.

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This is horrible. Perverts have been on the train for years. It's now they are shedding light on the situation because technology has advanced and people are taking pics of perps.

I have been flashed too many times to count and even had a man sitting across from me jerking his dick. I have not been on the subway in years.

I hope they catch that disgusting piece of garbage!

Me neither. Buses or cabs neither

I'm mad folks waited until after the man MOLESTED her before deciding to come to her aid though

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methinks this isn't the first videotape of a sleeping passenger this guy has made.

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Lmao

He didn't stop it because he's some pussy. There's no way I would have allowed that shit.

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I would have been loud and brought attention to the situation. "HEY ASSHOLE! WHY ARE YOU TOUCHING THAT SLEEPING WOMAN? DO YOU KNOW HER? HEY MISS WAKE UP! WAKE UP! THERE'S A PERVERT TOUCHING YOU."

Problemo solved. My first reaction would not be "oh let me get this on my phone cam." Honestly I probably would have zapped his ass with my stun gun.

Clearly dude was a pussy. When that woman woke up she punched him and he did nothing further.